{"id":20193,"date":"2014-03-09T23:37:42","date_gmt":"2014-03-09T23:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/?p=20193"},"modified":"2014-03-09T23:39:48","modified_gmt":"2014-03-09T23:39:48","slug":"why-leave-the-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/why-leave-the-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Leave the Garden?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why leave the garden? It was another beautiful sunny day. Quite mild, and more time for getting on with the spring clear up. Not that it’s too much of a hardship with so much to see just by looking around. And there’s one big surprise at the end.<\/p>\n

Overhead, several buzzards flew over late morning. The gulls chased them without ever really getting serious; just enough to shepherd the buzzards directly over the garden.<\/p>\n

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The gulls were rather more upset when a heron crossed the sky. They cleared a large passage for it, and by the sound of them were clearly not happy. It’s the first time I’ve seen a heron from the garden so although it was some distance away and the shot isn’t up to much, it’s here as part of the ongoing record.<\/p>\n

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A good part of the afternoon was spent removing weeds and leaves from the garden pond. It was somewhat neglected last year and was becoming a bit of a tangle. I clean it out by hand and spotted several newts (plus I inadvertently caught one, but quickly returned it to the water). The job’s only part done, but it does mean that tonight I was able to take this photo of one of the many newts.<\/p>\n

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Slightly off topic is this next shot. It was taken during the day but I’ve converted it to black and white. I had hoped to see a plane leave trails directly across the moon (I think I’ve got a shot like that from several years ago), but this will do.<\/p>\n

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The big (and very welcome) surprise comes towards the end of these video clips from the trail camera. Plenty of foxes, and a couple of badgers to enjoy.<\/p>\n

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Watch the video and you’ll know what I’m looking forward to seeing soon!<\/p>\n

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

Why leave the garden? It was another beautiful sunny day. Quite mild, and more time for getting on with the spring clear up. Not that it’s too much of a hardship with so much to see just by looking around. And there’s one big surprise at the end. Overhead, several buzzards flew over late morning. […]<\/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":[994,990,4,1031,1026,989],"tags":[160,179,1128,1179,616,38],"class_list":["post-20193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-badger-wildlife","category-bird-of-prey","category-foxes","category-moon-landscape-2","category-newt-amphibians-2","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-badger-2","tag-buzzard","tag-fox","tag-heron","tag-lactating-vixen","tag-moon","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