{"id":20417,"date":"2014-04-08T22:19:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-08T22:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/?p=20417"},"modified":"2014-04-08T22:19:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-08T22:19:00","slug":"baby-moorhens-at-falmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/baby-moorhens-at-falmer\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Moorhens at Falmer"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been a few days since I’ve posted, a combination of circumstances, poor weather and very few decent photos. Still, a break is like a punctuation and so it was good to have something new to photograph. New as in ‘new born’. <\/p>\n

I’ve been watching the Falmer moorhens nesting for the past few weeks. A nice secure spot, largely hidden by overhanging branches. I looked again today and the place was buzzing… with tiny little moorhen chicks. I counted 6 or 7, but as they were already up and about, there may actually be more than that. Here are a few of the photos of what I still think are possibly the ugliest baby birds on the planet… but certainly among the cutest! <\/p>\n

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Paddling in the shallow water<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The lookout gang!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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On the nest<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Proud mum and chicks<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Feeding time!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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There you go!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\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":"

It’s been a few days since I’ve posted, a combination of circumstances, poor weather and very few decent photos. Still, a break is like a punctuation and so it was good to have something new to photograph. New as in ‘new born’. I’ve been watching the Falmer moorhens nesting for the past few weeks. A […]<\/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":[989],"tags":[424,1172],"class_list":["post-20417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-chicks","tag-moorhen","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20417","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}