{"id":2159,"date":"2012-01-11T23:01:47","date_gmt":"2012-01-11T23:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2159"},"modified":"2013-11-06T23:49:40","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T23:49:40","slug":"collared-doves-and-moorhens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/collared-doves-and-moorhens\/","title":{"rendered":"Collared Doves and Moorhens"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

A small selection of shots taken at Falmer pond today, beginning with a beautiful sunrise over the Downs.
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The golden light spread across the pond just in time for this shot of a moorhen.
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The sun stays low all day at this time of year, but even so it had lost those deep colours by lunchtime which is when I spotted another moorhen high in a tree above the water.
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While I was watching the moorhen clamber down to water level (they don't seem very keen to fly), a pair of collared doves commenced an aerial courtship dance among the branches.
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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":[980,813,989],"tags":[276,1172,1199],"class_list":["post-2159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-sunrise","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-collared-dove","tag-moorhen","tag-sunrise","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t