{"id":2115,"date":"2011-11-21T00:11:02","date_gmt":"2011-11-21T00:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2115"},"modified":"2013-11-07T20:25:40","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T20:25:40","slug":"a-couple-more-starlings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/a-couple-more-starlings\/","title":{"rendered":"A Couple More Starlings&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->This is definitely the time of year for starlings. They are massing in large flocks and filling the air with their incessant chatter. These ones are on their favoured tree at the rear of our garden.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/starling_2011112409.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/starling_2011112395.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>We still have some butterflies around, to go with the recent dragonfly sighting. There were a pair of red admirals in the garden, but only one settled. It looks a bit worn, but that&#39;s not really a surprise this late in the season. I&#39;ve seen worse!<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/red_admiral_2011112407.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Later in the day I headed out to the Downs. It was quiet, and apart from a few more flocks of starlings the only other bird I photographed was a meadow pipit. At least I think that&#39;s what it is. I&#39;m no expert at identifying the smaller brown birds so I could be wrong. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/meadow_pipit_2011112443.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>This next shot is of one of the hazards on the local golf course, taken just as the sun was dropping low in the sky.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/gorse_2011112500.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The other hazard (from a photographer&#39;s perspective) are the golfers, but they were on the back 9 and a safe distance away.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/golf_2011112481.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><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":[980,992,1003,1004],"tags":[1144,812,259,811,34],"class_list":["post-2115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-butterfly-insects-2","category-landscape-2","category-south-downs-national-park-landscape-2","tag-butterfly","tag-golf","tag-meadow-pipit","tag-red-admiral","tag-starling","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2115","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=2115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}