{"id":20020,"date":"2014-02-19T23:27:37","date_gmt":"2014-02-19T23:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/?p=20020"},"modified":"2014-02-19T23:27:37","modified_gmt":"2014-02-19T23:27:37","slug":"blackbird-yellowhammer-fox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/blackbird-yellowhammer-fox\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackbird, Yellowhammer (and video fox)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More grey skies and poor light, but the birds are becoming active despite the poor weather and none more so than the local blackbirds. This female was the highlight of an admittedly poor morning at the pond. But she was worth a couple of photos.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/blackbird_1902142318.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/blackbird_1902142318-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"Female blackbird\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-20021\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/blackbird_1902142318-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/blackbird_1902142318-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/blackbird_1902142318.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/blackbird_1902142324.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/blackbird_1902142324-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"Female blackbird\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-20022\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/blackbird_1902142324-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/blackbird_1902142324-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/blackbird_1902142324.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At lunchtime I went back through the woods. No buzzard today (but I am hopeful of more sightings). I did, however, photograph one of the recent storm casualties. There are several tree in this condition, and a large number of broken boughs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/tree_fallen_1902142402.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/tree_fallen_1902142402-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"Fallen tree in Westlain Plantation,\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-20023\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/tree_fallen_1902142402-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/tree_fallen_1902142402-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/tree_fallen_1902142402.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The woods lead out into local farmland, and (suitably booted) I ventured out across the fields. I could see pigeons in the distance, and crows and a good-sized and highly mobile flock of yellowhammers. With more time I might have managed something slightly better than this.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/yellowhammer_1902142385.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/yellowhammer_1902142385-600x361.jpg\" alt=\"Yellowhammer\" width=\"600\" height=\"361\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-20024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/yellowhammer_1902142385-600x361.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/yellowhammer_1902142385-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/yellowhammer_1902142385.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I mentioned that I&#8217;d set the trail camera to video. Here&#8217;s the first clip of the year. Pretty is out with another (male) fox. It&#8217;s raining (when isn&#8217;t it at the moment?).<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"640\" height=\"360\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ynVasYS4g78?hl=en_US&amp;version=3\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ynVasYS4g78?hl=en_US&amp;version=3\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><em>Camera note: all photos taken with the Canon 7D and EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More grey skies and poor light, but the birds are becoming active despite the poor weather and none more so than the local blackbirds. This female was the highlight of an admittedly poor morning at the pond. But she was worth a couple of photos. At lunchtime I went back through the woods. No buzzard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[980,4,1003],"tags":[51,1128,110,471],"class_list":["post-20020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-foxes","category-landscape-2","tag-blackbird","tag-fox","tag-woodland","tag-yellowhammer","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20020","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}