{"id":2119,"date":"2011-11-24T23:11:44","date_gmt":"2011-11-24T23:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2119"},"modified":"2013-11-07T20:16:30","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T20:16:30","slug":"a-mixed-bag-including-a-fox-on-a-fence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/a-mixed-bag-including-a-fox-on-a-fence\/","title":{"rendered":"A Mixed Bag including a Fox on a Fence"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Little or no mist today, nor much in the way of sunshine; but it was dry and there were some new faces at the pond. In this case it&#39;s two new faces. A second pair of white ducks has appeared. Just as photogenic as the first pair, but slightly less pristine in their appearance if these shots are anything to go by.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/duck_2411113335.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/duck_2411113355.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The &#39;original&#39; whites were out on the water, steering clear of the mud.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/duck_2411113382.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Another surprise was much smaller, and fleeting. Down by the edge of the water, perched on one of the submerged rocks, a brightly coloured grey wagtail.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/grey_wagtail_2411113402.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/grey_wagtail_2411113403.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/grey_wagtail_2411113406.jpg' \/><\/span> <br \/>Back home, Shutterbug came by and gave me my first opportunity for a very long time of a &#39;fox on a fence&#39;. He was just passing through (or so I thought) and these are somewhat snatched shots, not helped by the twigs grabbing the primary focus.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/fox_shutterbug_2411113455.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/fox_shutterbug_2411113457.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/fox_shutterbug_2411113458.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>He did wander back a few minutes later, again staying only briefly. Here&#39;s one of the better shots of him. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/fox_shutterbug_2411113462.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: birds taken with the Canon 7D and EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens. Fox photographed with the  EF 100mm f\/2.8L macro IS 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":[980,4,989],"tags":[1160,1128,815],"class_list":["post-2119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-foxes","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-duck","tag-fox","tag-grey-wagtail","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2119","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=2119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}