{"id":2008,"date":"2011-08-02T22:08:41","date_gmt":"2011-08-02T21:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2008"},"modified":"2013-11-08T21:54:53","modified_gmt":"2013-11-08T21:54:53","slug":"common-sandpiper-and-other-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/common-sandpiper-and-other-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"Common Sandpiper"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The first sequence was taken early this morning. The common sandpiper is a small wading bird, and very occasionally I see one (or two) at the pond. But not often and I usually struggle to get any decent shots. They&#39;re quite shy and even with a long lens they find it relatively easy to stay out of range. Maybe it was the exceptional weather today&#8230; <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/common_sandpiper_0208118993.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='http:\/\/files.myopera.com\/Words\/blog\/common_sandpiper_0208119000.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/common_sandpiper_0208119032.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>That was one end of the pond. At the other, a heron. Always a heron, this time photographed into the sun.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/heron_0208119088.jpg' \/><\/span> <br \/><span class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/natureblognetwork.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/natureblognetwork.com\/button.php?u=Words\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" alt=\"Nature Blog Network\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/><i>Camera note: all shots taken with the Canon 7D EF 400mm f\/5.6L 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":[989],"tags":[766,1179],"class_list":["post-2008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-common-sandpiper","tag-heron","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2008","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=2008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}