{"id":2038,"date":"2011-08-31T23:08:03","date_gmt":"2011-08-31T22:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2038"},"modified":"2013-11-08T18:42:55","modified_gmt":"2013-11-08T18:42:55","slug":"slaugham-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/slaugham-lake\/","title":{"rendered":"Slaugham Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->We returned to Slaugham lake today (pronounced <i>Sloffam<\/i>). It&#39;s an idyllic setting in the Sussex countryside, very peaceful with barely anyone around. it makes a change from the much busier coastal locations.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/slaugham_3108117452.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/slaugham_3108117473.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/swallow_3108117490.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>No kingfisher photos today (I saw one but all too briefly), but there were other good sightings. Once again the treecreepers played hide and seek in the woodland shade.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/treecreeper_3108117590.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/treecreeper_3108117600.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Numerous dragonflies were equally evasive, flitting between the reeds or resting in the shallows. This first is (I think) a southern hawker.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/southern_hawker_dragonfly_3108117485.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>And this is (again a somewhat tentative identification) a female brown hawker.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/brown_hawker_dragonfly_3108117511.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>I may have failed with the kingfisher, but the female great spotted woodpecker was a little more cooperative this time, perching out in plain view. She wasn&#39;t there long, but it was long enough.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/gsw_3108117635.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/gsw_3108117638.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>There are surprisngly few ducks on the lake, but we did see a pair of herons and some great crested grebes. The other ever-present species are sparrows; so many of them that it&#39;s impossible to move without a flurry of feather appearing from the hedgerow. These three decided to pose on an overhanging branch.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/sparrow_3108117664.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>I&#39;ll close with a shot of the small (disused?) boathouse. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/slaugham_boathouse_3108117696.jpg' \/><\/span> <br \/><span class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/natureblognetwork.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/natureblognetwork.com\/button.php?u=Words\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" alt=\"Nature Blog Network\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/><i>Camera note: all shots taken with the Canon 7D EF 400mm f\/5.6L USM lens, with the exception of the first image which was taken with the EF17-40mm f\/4L USM lens.<\/i><br \/><a title=\"site stats\" href=\"http:\/\/statcounter.com\/free-web-stats\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/c.statcounter.com\/7187219\/0\/2c644058\/1\/\" alt=\"site stats\" style=\"border:none;\" \/><\/a><\/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":[980,77,1003,1004],"tags":[1148,198,779,264,1165,1197],"class_list":["post-2038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-dragonfly","category-landscape-2","category-south-downs-national-park-landscape-2","tag-dragonfly","tag-great-spotted-woodpecker","tag-slaugham-lake","tag-sparrow","tag-swallow","tag-treecreeper","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}