{"id":20183,"date":"2014-03-09T00:14:57","date_gmt":"2014-03-09T00:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/?p=20183"},"modified":"2014-03-09T00:14:57","modified_gmt":"2014-03-09T00:14:57","slug":"saturday-selection-birds-frog-fox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/saturday-selection-birds-frog-fox\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Selection (birds frog fox)"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been one of those quiet pottering days, some of the time spent in the garden but with a brief walk out on the Downs on the way back from taking yet more garden cuttings to the local recycling centre. I’ll start though with a photo from last night. It’s a lone frog in the pond, though a noisy one. We didn’t do well with frogs last year, so I’m not sure whether we’ll get any spawn <\/a>this time around.<\/p>\n

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Pretty seems to turn into a shy fox in daylight. She does come by, but today refused to move beyond the back of the garden.<\/p>\n

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The local recycling centre is about a mile and half from here, just a short drive and to get to it I have to drive past the entrance to Sheepcote Valley. Sheepcote is my favourite kestrel site, but there weren’t any around today. Instead of roaming the valley I headed down one of the footpaths.<\/p>\n

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It was sunny but cool, and the skylarks were hovering overhead filling the air with their distinctive trilling. They really do make it feel like spring has arrived.<\/p>\n

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Skylarks are meadow birds and never venture too far from the fields. Goldfinches, however, are tempted to come into gardens and a small group (scarcely enough to call a flock) were flitting in and out during the afternoon. Mainly they hid out of sight in the higher branches, but just briefly they showed enough of themselves to warrant a photo.<\/p>\n

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Camera note: all photos taken with the Canon 7D and EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens with the exception of the frog which was captured with the EF 100mm f\/2.8L macro IS USM lens.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s been one of those quiet pottering days, some of the time spent in the garden but with a brief walk out on the Downs on the way back from taking yet more garden cuttings to the local recycling centre. I’ll start though with a photo from last night. It’s a lone frog in the […]<\/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":[1025,980,4,86],"tags":[1128,1149,211,1190,316],"class_list":["post-20183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amphibians-2","category-birds-2","category-foxes","category-frog","tag-fox","tag-frog","tag-goldfinch","tag-sheepcote-valley","tag-skylark","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