{"id":20426,"date":"2014-04-09T22:46:21","date_gmt":"2014-04-09T22:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/?p=20426"},"modified":"2014-04-09T22:47:41","modified_gmt":"2014-04-09T22:47:41","slug":"reflections-in-the-pond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/reflections-in-the-pond\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflections in the Pond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m going to risk the wrath of the weather gods and say that it really does look as though spring has arrived. Another bright sunny day at Falmer, a touch cool but it really is now beginning to look and feel like springtime. So to celebrate, some cute shots of a rat down by the water&#8217;s edge, with some nice reflections.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/rat_0904140761.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/rat_0904140761-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"rat\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-20427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/rat_0904140761-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/rat_0904140761-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/rat_0904140761.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/rat_0904140779.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/rat_0904140779-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"rat\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-20428\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/rat_0904140779-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/rat_0904140779-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/rat_0904140779.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/rat_0904140783.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/rat_0904140783-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"rat\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-20429\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/rat_0904140783-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/rat_0904140783-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/rat_0904140783.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It did eventually scramble up the bank in search of the bread left out for the ducks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/rat_0904140843.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/rat_0904140843-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"rat\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-20430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/rat_0904140843-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/rat_0904140843-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/rat_0904140843.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two other seasonal moments: first a chirpy little blackcap spotted at the edge of the Westlain Plantation at Falmer:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/blackcap_0904140991.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/blackcap_0904140991-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"Blackcap \" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-20431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/blackcap_0904140991-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/blackcap_0904140991-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/blackcap_0904140991.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And to close, my favourite shot from today of the baby moorhens.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/moorhen_chick_0904141036.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/moorhen_chick_0904141036-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"Moorhen chicks\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-20432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/moorhen_chick_0904141036-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/moorhen_chick_0904141036-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/moorhen_chick_0904141036.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>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":"<p>I&#8217;m going to risk the wrath of the weather gods and say that it really does look as though spring has arrived. Another bright sunny day at Falmer, a touch cool but it really is now beginning to look and feel like springtime. So to celebrate, some cute shots of a rat down by the [&hellip;]<\/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":[980,781,989],"tags":[621,1177,1172,1183],"class_list":["post-20426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-rats","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-blackcap","tag-chick","tag-moorhen","tag-rat","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20426","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=20426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}