{"id":20298,"date":"2014-03-23T23:22:13","date_gmt":"2014-03-23T23:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/?p=20298"},"modified":"2014-03-23T23:35:54","modified_gmt":"2014-03-23T23:35:54","slug":"sparrowhawk-and-herring-gull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/sparrowhawk-and-herring-gull\/","title":{"rendered":"Sparrowhawk and Herring Gull"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just a short sequence from yesterday. I was out in the garden watching the skies when the squawking of the local herring gulls alerted me to this sparrowhawk flying overhead.<\/p>\n

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Most of the gulls were keeping their distance and just being noisy about the passing intruder over their patch. One gull, however, took matters into its own hands (or wings) and commenced on a solo mobbing. These are hefty crops as the action was a considerable distance away.<\/p>\n

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The sparrowhawk eventually got fed up with the close attentions of the larger bird and dove down across the valley, easily outpacing the gull which was content to return to the main flock. <\/p>\n

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":"

Just a short sequence from yesterday. I was out in the garden watching the skies when the squawking of the local herring gulls alerted me to this sparrowhawk flying overhead. Most of the gulls were keeping their distance and just being noisy about the passing intruder over their patch. One gull, however, took matters into […]<\/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":[990],"tags":[1158,867,1154],"class_list":["post-20298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bird-of-prey","tag-herring-gull","tag-mobbing","tag-sparrowhawk","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