{"id":2118,"date":"2011-11-23T22:11:53","date_gmt":"2011-11-23T22:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2118"},"modified":"2013-11-07T20:22:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T20:22:00","slug":"a-stunning-day-at-the-pond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/a-stunning-day-at-the-pond\/","title":{"rendered":"A Stunning Day at the Pond"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->There was glorious sunshine this morning when I left home from the top of the South Downs.  It was one of those days when the mists are sitting low in the valleys, and the pond was heavily shrouded by a thick fog when I arrived. The sun was strong, and the mist visibly dissipated within a few minutes to  reveal a golden vista complete with gliding heron.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/heron_2311112991.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>I watched as a sparrowhawk skimmed low over the pond through the mist, too fast for the camera but a stunning moment to see. <\/p>\n<p>The peace was shattered by a large flock of greylags over-flying the pond. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/geese_2311113056.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/geese_2311113129.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/0geese_2311113125.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>They circled several times, utterly dominating the sky.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/0geese_2311113172.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/geese_2311113087.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/geese_2311113083.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>A few minutes later a cormorant glided lazily against the (by now) deep blue sky.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/cormorant_2311113200.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>It paused for a few minutes on the water, before taking to the air once again.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/cormorant_2311113260.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>A perfect half hour, with a wonderful natural lightshow setting off a fine array of wildlife. It really was quite special.<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":[813,989],"tags":[449,814,1179,140,1199],"class_list":["post-2118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sunrise","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-cormorant","tag-greylag-geese","tag-heron","tag-mist","tag-sunrise","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118","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=2118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}