{"id":2030,"date":"2011-08-24T23:08:24","date_gmt":"2011-08-24T22:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2030"},"modified":"2013-11-08T19:09:59","modified_gmt":"2013-11-08T19:09:59","slug":"bits-and-pieces-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/bits-and-pieces-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Bits and Pieces"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

Another of those posts which is really just a record of a few bits and pieces from the day. I'll start with a bird I've not featured for a while, the wheatear. I saw this one up near the racecourse this afternoon. I'd been to the local tip (or 'recycling centre' to give its proper name) to get rid of numerous bits of old technology (including 3 computer keyboards that I seem to have accumulated over the years). Anyway, I took this on my way back.
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I then popped over to the local pond to see if the cormorant was around. No sign of him (or the heron), but out in the fields the local gulls were enjoying following the plough. This is a common sight at this time of year.
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Down by the pond itself, the young moorhens have grown stilts. Or that's how it appears…
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And in the garden tonight… a familiar face.
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Camera note: all shots taken with the Canon 7D EF 400mm f\/5.6L USM lens, except the fox which was photographed with the EF 100mm f\/2.8L macro IS 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":[980,1043,4],"tags":[325,1128,68,1172,463],"class_list":["post-2030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-farming-2","category-foxes","tag-farming","tag-fox","tag-gull","tag-moorhen","tag-wheatear","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