{"id":1998,"date":"2011-07-24T22:07:44","date_gmt":"2011-07-24T21:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1998"},"modified":"2013-11-09T01:09:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T01:09:00","slug":"a-fox-visits-and-other-recent-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/a-fox-visits-and-other-recent-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"A Fox Visits, and other recent photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

I'll start with a brief catch-up, mainly because I like the shots. The first was taken in the early hours of Saturday morning. The location: our back door. A small spider had snared a lacewing. The shot was taken with a very low flash, just enough to pick out the spider and its prey.
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The next shot is one of a series taken on Saturday morning at Rottingdean. It's one of the rock pipits that inhabit the cliffs (alongside jackdaws, gulls and fulmars). The pipits are great little birds, flitting ceaselessly to and fro in search of their next meal.
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As for the rest of this post, it's back to foxes (and about time too, I tell myself). After an absence of a week or so, Shutterbug was back in the garden today. His coat is recovering extremely well, and he's once again sporting a healthy looking brush which will thicken out as autumn approaches.
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He was in an inquisitive mood, and came over to investigate the camera.
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And he kept coming…
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…and coming.
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Eventually getting close enough to sniff the lens hood (just one more reason why you should always put a hood on a lens).
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Quite why he's taken to daytime visits I don't know. I do suspect he's sleeping close by during the day, but he seems largely to have abandoned the garden at night to the young (and very shy) cub. Fathoming the reasoning behind the constant changes in fox territorial games isn't easy, but I'm sure they have their reasons; and equally certain is that whatever pattern is currently in place will be disrupted again come autumn when the preparations for the winter begin in earnest.
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Camera note: spider shot taken with the Canon 7D and EF 100mm f\/2.8L macro IS USM lens. The pipit was photographed with the EF 400mm f\/5.6L USM lens; and the fox with the EF 200mm f\/2.8L II USM lens. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[980,4,991,1009],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-foxes","category-insects-2","category-spiders-2","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}