{"id":2070,"date":"2011-10-02T23:10:57","date_gmt":"2011-10-02T22:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2070"},"modified":"2013-11-07T22:24:56","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T22:24:56","slug":"a-quick-selection-of-some-common-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/a-quick-selection-of-some-common-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"A Quick Selection of Some Common Birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

I topped and tailed today with treks out on to the Downs. Nothing spectacular to see (apart from one very distant peregrine), but plenty of the more common local birds. Here's a quick selection, starting with a couple of magpie shots. Both are carrying food. I think the first has a piece of apple. The second (a juvenile) seemingly has found a couple of dog biscuits. :confused:
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Down at ground level, the wheatears were wandering around in small flocks. This one was a little bolder than the rest and let me get close enough for a a proper shot.
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There were plenty of crows as well…
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…and a fly-by sighting of a kestrel. Just the one, and very fleeting.
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The rest are from the end of the day, starting with a duck at Falmer pond. I really like the colours in this shot, and the sense of habitat.
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Further out on the Downs the yellowhammers were flitting in small flocks from tree to tree. Occasionally one would pause for breath.
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The ubiquitous robin was also an ever-present. This is their time of year. I see them everywhere.
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Same location, but this time a blue tit.
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Finally, a shot of a small murmuration of starling, their wings catching the late afternoon sun about 20 minutes before sunset.
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The uncommonly hot weather will slowly return to something more autumnal over the next few days. It's been glorious though, while it's lasted.
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Camera note: all shots taken with the Canon 7D EF and 400mm f\/5.6L USM lens.<\/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":[980],"tags":[45,44,1160,1152,109,78,168,463,471],"class_list":["post-2070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","tag-blue-tit","tag-crow","tag-duck","tag-kestrel","tag-magpie","tag-robin","tag-starlings","tag-wheatear","tag-yellowhammer","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2070","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=2070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}