{"id":2106,"date":"2011-11-10T23:11:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T23:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2106"},"modified":"2013-11-07T20:48:33","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T20:48:33","slug":"a-new-face-at-the-pond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/a-new-face-at-the-pond\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Face at the Pond"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->There was heavy mist about this morning, but by lunchtime the air had cleared and I was able to get out to Falmer Pond. The usual suspects were about, including numerous playful moorhens.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/moorhen_1011110873.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/moorhen_1011110884.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/moorhen_1011110885.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>And if you look closely at the first of those shots you&#39;ll see who the newcomer is. We seem to have acquired a coot. It was on its own, and is (as far as I can recall) the first one I&#39;ve seen there. Here&#39;s a better shot.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/coot_1011110856.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>A small flock of pigeons was gathered on the 13th century barn behind the church. They were startled by an overflying kestrel (a large female).<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/pigeon_1011110815.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/kestrel_1011110841.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The kestrel flew on, no doubt searching for better hunting out in the fields. The black-headed gulls were staying local, hoping to be fed by the occasional passer-by. They were out of luck where I&#39;m concerned, but still provided a few interesting shots.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/black_headed_gull_1011110836.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/black_headed_gull_1011110902.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/black_headed_gull_1011110905.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Nothing from the garden tonight. I did spy a pair of eyes lurking at the back of the garden, but they turned away as soon as they spotted me. A fox no doubt; but a shy one.  <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":[989],"tags":[378,1175,1152,1172,59],"class_list":["post-2106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-black-headed-gull","tag-coot","tag-kestrel","tag-moorhen","tag-pigeon","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2106","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=2106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}