{"id":2056,"date":"2011-09-19T00:09:10","date_gmt":"2011-09-18T23:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2056"},"modified":"2013-11-07T23:32:11","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T23:32:11","slug":"take-it-sloe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/take-it-sloe\/","title":{"rendered":"Take it Sloe"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

In the corner of our garden we have a small blackthorn tree. Most years it has produced a small number of fruits, which are called sloes. This year, probably due to a warm spring and wet summer the crop has been unusually large. We don't have much use for them, and few of the garden animals seem to take them. One type does however, the slugs; and I spotted this one munching away late last night.
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Keeping to the garden, another of our occasional visitors came by yesterday. There are a couple of badgers that visit, but they are shy and I rarely get to see them in the flesh, so a decent shot from the trail camera is always welcome.
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As for today, just a few birds. Again these were all taken from the garden, though the first shots were a long distance above. The first two are not the sharpest, but are included here because I have so few shots of sparowhawks flying in pairs.
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Late afternoon and early morning produce by far the best light, and at this time of year both ends of the day are at reasonable hours. That's a big autumn plus! Anyway, this was taken late in the day while two gulls were kicking up a racket on a neighbouring roof.
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Camera note: slug taken with the Canon 7D and EF 100mm f\/2.8L macro IS USM lens. The birds were all taken with the EF 400mm f\/5.6L USM lens. The badger is by the Bushnell Trophy Cam. <\/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":[990,1046],"tags":[160,68,783,261,1154],"class_list":["post-2056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bird-of-prey","category-leopard-slugs","tag-badger-2","tag-gull","tag-sloe","tag-slug","tag-sparrowhawk","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