{"id":2111,"date":"2011-11-16T23:11:30","date_gmt":"2011-11-16T23:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2111"},"modified":"2013-11-07T20:29:55","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T20:29:55","slug":"more-gulls-and-a-couple-of-surprises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/more-gulls-and-a-couple-of-surprises\/","title":{"rendered":"More Gulls and a couple of surprises"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->I&#39;m still hammering away at long exposure shots of seagulls. It suits the time of year, and I wasn&#39;t able to get out in the brief period of sunshine we had in the middle of the day. So more blurs to puzzle over!<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/gull_blur_1611111809.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/gull_blur_1611111814.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/gull_blur_1611111835_a.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>I promised a couple of surprises as well. <\/p>\n<p>The first was in the pond just a few minutes ago. I noticed something moving on the surface. On closer inspection it turned out to be a dragonfly struggling to free itself from the weed. I helped it on to a small piece of bark (which it gripped) and transported to a bush so that it could dry off. It seems exceptionally late in the year, and I&#39;m not sure of the species. I really don&#39;t expect to be photographing dragonflies at this time of year, but it says something for the unusually mild weather we&#39;ve been having (despite the fogs).<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/dragonfly_1611111919.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The second surprise is from last night&#39;s trailcam. It&#39;s Shutterbug with a companion. They&#39;ve been together several times recently. A promising sign for this time of year.. \ud83d\ude00<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/fox_x2_1511110027.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Last up is not so much a surprise, but a rarety for the blog. It&#39;s yours truly taken a few nights ago while I was photographing Shutterbug. The trailcam was set, and fired a few shots while I was doing the same. Not often that I get the wrong side of the camera!<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/words1211110039.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/fox_shutterbug_1211111255.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: gulls taken with the Canon 7D and EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens. Dragonfly and fox taken with the EF 100mm f\/2.8L macro IS USM lens. Trail cam images by the Bushnell Trophy Cam. <\/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":[77,4,989],"tags":[1148,1128,49],"class_list":["post-2111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dragonfly","category-foxes","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-dragonfly","tag-fox","tag-gulls","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2111","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=2111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}