{"id":2169,"date":"2012-01-22T00:01:24","date_gmt":"2012-01-22T00:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2169"},"modified":"2013-11-06T22:55:17","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T22:55:17","slug":"catch-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/catch-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Catch Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->In the absence of anything exciting to post from today, here a re a few shots from earlier in the week that were put to one side as a result of yesterday&#39;s fox special.<\/p>\n<p>Going back to the <a href=\"http:\/\/my.opera.com\/Words\/blog\/2012\/01\/19\/a-blackbird-photo-special\" target=\"_blank\">Blackbird<\/a> post, here are some of the other birds that were mentioned but not shown. The personal highlight were the yellowhammers, my first of the year for this highly distinctive field bird.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/yellowhammer_1901122850.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Several robins were darting around as well, including this one which posed briefly in a shaft of weak sunlight.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/robin_1901122965.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The moorhen is included for the pose\/setting.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/moorhen_1901122975.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>As is this mallard male.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/duck_1901122824.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Those were all taken at lunchtime on Thursday. Just a couple of shots from earlier in the same day. There&#39;s a small group of greylags that are permanent residents at the pond, but on Thursday morning a sizeable flock had landed on the water. They were gone by lunchtime, but I expect some of  them to return over the coming weeks. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/greylag_1901122751.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/greylag_1901122762.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>No foxes tonight, but the recent shots will no doubt find a place on my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/picofday.html\" target=\"_blank\">fox of the day<\/a> page over the coming week or so.<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":[980],"tags":[1160,814,1172,78,471],"class_list":["post-2169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","tag-duck","tag-greylag-geese","tag-moorhen","tag-robin","tag-yellowhammer","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169","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=2169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}