{"id":20557,"date":"2014-05-01T00:05:52","date_gmt":"2014-04-30T23:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/?p=20557"},"modified":"2014-05-01T00:05:52","modified_gmt":"2014-04-30T23:05:52","slug":"fighting-moorhens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/fighting-moorhens\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighting Moorhens (and an almost bold fox)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve devoted a good number of recent posts to the admittedly very cute little moorhen chicks. Today though, I’m going to concentrate on the adults. Three of them were engaged in a mass punch-up on the pond (I’m not sure they’re all visible in these shots), the equivalent in moorhen-speak to a deer rut. There’s no doubt that mating rights are the main agenda.<\/p>\n

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I was going to post some photos of the local greylags, but I’ve just enjoyed a moderately successful encounter with one of our garden foxes. He was still acting shy, but did linger for several minutes. Here are two photos. I took a total of seven (very restrained for me), and they were all from 30+ feet away, but it’s a noticeable advancement on previous sightings. The shy fox is almost bold! <\/p>\n

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Camera note: all moorhen photos taken with the Canon 7D and EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens. Fox photographed with the EF 24-105 F4L IS USM lens.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve devoted a good number of recent posts to the admittedly very cute little moorhen chicks. Today though, I’m going to concentrate on the adults. Three of them were engaged in a mass punch-up on the pond (I’m not sure they’re all visible in these shots), the equivalent in moorhen-speak to a deer rut. There’s […]<\/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":[4,989],"tags":[1128,1172],"class_list":["post-20557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foxes","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-fox","tag-moorhen","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