{"id":2101,"date":"2011-11-04T23:11:24","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T23:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2101"},"modified":"2013-11-07T21:08:04","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T21:08:04","slug":"hey-you-get-off-of-my-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/hey-you-get-off-of-my-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey You! Get Off Of My Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->This could well have been just another cormorant post. A pair were at the local pond early this morning. I think they stop off there for breakfast as they usually fly off and I don&#39;t usually see them at lunchtime. Anyway I got a few flight shots in the morning gloom before one of the cormorants disappeared over the fields. The other decided to mimic the smaller local birds and ended up here.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/cormorant_0411111312.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>It&#39;s always slightly strange seeing such large birds (with webbed feet) perching high on a tree, but this is one cool customer as you can see when a crow came into view. Barely a blink from the cormorant! <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/cormorant_0411111319.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/cormorant_0411111321.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/cormorant_0411111322.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/cormorant_0411111324.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>He did fly off a few minutes later, providing me with some more shots during a final circuit of the pond.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/cormorant_0411111342.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The closing shot is a squirrel seen at lunchtime. I was using the 100-400 lens which, unlike the prime, has image stabilization built-in. Useful when the shutter will only crawl to 1\/50s. If the weather stays like this that lens will be working hard over the next few weeks.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/squirrel_0411111431.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 and EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS 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":[449,44,1141],"class_list":["post-2101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","tag-cormorant","tag-crow","tag-squirrel","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2101","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=2101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}