{"id":21541,"date":"2014-08-21T00:00:12","date_gmt":"2014-08-20T23:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/?p=21541"},"modified":"2014-08-21T00:00:12","modified_gmt":"2014-08-20T23:00:12","slug":"heron-plus-rat-in-the-woods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/heron-plus-rat-in-the-woods\/","title":{"rendered":"Heron plus Rat in the Woods"},"content":{"rendered":"

Odd weather we’re having. It’s much cooler than it is supposed to be at this time of year, but the sun was out this morning and I arrived at falmer Pond just in time to see the local heron landing gracefully on the island tree.<\/p>\n

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I was keeping my eyes open for rats scurrying around the fringes of the pond, and I thought I’d spotted one on the far side but it turned out to be a squirrel which had ventured down to the edge of the water for an early morning drink.<\/p>\n

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The rats did, however, show up at lunchtime. Not in their usual waterside runs, but foraging in the wooded area behind the pond. I watched for several minutes as it dug for roots and seeds in the soft earth, but it was eventually scared away by an elderly dog-walker. <\/p>\n

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Camera note: all photos taken with the Canon 7D and EF 400mm f\/5.6L USM lens.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Odd weather we’re having. It’s much cooler than it is supposed to be at this time of year, but the sun was out this morning and I arrived at falmer Pond just in time to see the local heron landing gracefully on the island tree. I was keeping my eyes open for rats scurrying around […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[781,50,989],"tags":[1179,1183,1141],"class_list":["post-21541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rats","category-squirrel","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-heron","tag-rat","tag-squirrel","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21541","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}