{"id":2011,"date":"2011-08-06T00:08:27","date_gmt":"2011-08-05T23:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2011"},"modified":"2013-11-08T21:51:22","modified_gmt":"2013-11-08T21:51:22","slug":"baby-house-martins-and-other-cute-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/baby-house-martins-and-other-cute-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby House Martins and other cute birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

With the return of weather approximating summer I was back at Falmer pond today, before work and again at lunchtime. I'll get to some of the more traditional water fowl later, but for most of the time I was hidden away at the back of the church watching these little house martin chicks.
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Getting decent shots is frustrating as the nest is located so that at almost any time of day it's in shade, but at least the regular foraging runs of the adults means that there is plenty to see.
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The house martins aren't the only ones with young. The ducks have a new brood, and they were foraging under the shade of the trees.
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Meanwhile, one of the adults was standing on the water!
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The closing shots for today are a couple of a juvenile moorhen coming in to a high-speed splashdown.
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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":[980,989],"tags":[424,1160,1176,562,1172],"class_list":["post-2011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-chicks","tag-duck","tag-duckling","tag-house-martin","tag-moorhen","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t