{"id":2071,"date":"2011-10-04T00:10:34","date_gmt":"2011-10-03T23:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2071"},"modified":"2013-11-07T22:23:46","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T22:23:46","slug":"mistle-thrush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/mistle-thrush\/","title":{"rendered":"Mistle Thrush"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The mistle thrush is larger than the song thrush and more upright in its posture, but the easiest way to identify it is by its call. Not the melodic call of its better known cousin, but instead a call that closely resembles a football rattle at full throttle. This morning you could have been forgiven for thinking that a game was taking place at the nearby football stadium. A small flock of mistles were &#39;thrushing&#39; for all their worth. <\/p>\n<p>I started by photographing a playful pair. They were jumping between branches so it was just a matter of biding my time to get a flight shot.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/mistle_thrush_0310115797.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/mistle_thrush_0310115799.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The light was excellent and after watching them for a few minutes I stepped back to take a shot of several perched high in the trees. There are five in this frame, and one very colourful interloper. I really didn&#39;t see the woodpecker when I took it.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/mistle_thrush_0310115801.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The next shot is one I like, not a thrush but a magpie landing in a ploughed field as the sun was rising above the Downs.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/magpie_0310115773.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>And just a couple more ducks enjoying the late season sun. This may be the last of it. The weather is changing again. Some rain and drizzle tonight, and cooler air on the way.  Still, it&#39;s been a good month so far. We&#39;ll probably have snow by the end of it :whistle:<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/duck_0310115922.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/duck_0310115909.jpg' \/><\/span> <br \/><span class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/natureblognetwork.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/natureblognetwork.com\/button.php?u=Words\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" alt=\"Nature Blog Network\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/><a title=\"site stats\" href=\"http:\/\/statcounter.com\/free-web-stats\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/c.statcounter.com\/7187219\/0\/2c644058\/1\/\" alt=\"site stats\" style=\"border:none;\" \/><\/a><br \/><i>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":[1160,1185,109,513],"class_list":["post-2071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","tag-duck","tag-greater-spotted-woodpecker","tag-magpie","tag-mistle-thrush","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2071","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=2071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}