{"id":2093,"date":"2011-10-28T00:10:08","date_gmt":"2011-10-27T23:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2093"},"modified":"2013-11-07T21:17:18","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T21:17:18","slug":"little-egret-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/little-egret-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Little Egret"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The early bird may (usually) catch the worm, but in this case the worm was a fish. Not a great shot, but I&#39;m sure that the little egret is not going to worry about that.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/egret_2710110707.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>I did manage to get a little closer after that, probably as close as I&#39;ve yet managed with egrets. They are somewhat self-conscious birds and tend not to hang around for too long.  One day I&#39;ll see one in decent light.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/egret_2710110713.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/egret_2710110722.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/egret_2710110716.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>That was this morning. Tonight I&#39;ve been pond-gazing. This is one of the innumerable damselfly nymphs.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/damselfly_nymph_2710110801.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>And there are young newts&#8230;<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/newt_2710110806.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/newt_2710110850.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>To close, a special guest appearance (brief, but I&#39;m happy) by Shutterbug the fox. He&#39;s looking well, but didn&#39;t hang around. It was just a stately walk through the garden and then out via one of the fences.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/fox_shutterbug_2710110836.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 little egret shots taken with the Canon 7D EF and 400mm f\/5.6L USM lens. the rest were taken with the EF 100mm f\/2.8L macro IS 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":[4,1026,239,989],"tags":[472,1128,702,114],"class_list":["post-2093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foxes","category-newt-amphibians-2","category-nymph","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-damselfly-nymph","tag-fox","tag-little-egret","tag-newt","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2093","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=2093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}