{"id":2171,"date":"2012-01-23T22:01:43","date_gmt":"2012-01-23T22:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2171"},"modified":"2013-11-06T22:52:46","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T22:52:46","slug":"a-flock-of-curlews-and-wigeons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/a-flock-of-curlews-and-wigeons\/","title":{"rendered":"A Flock of Curlews (and Wigeons)"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Well it makes a changes from a flock of seagulls! Two fabulous flocks of birds flew overhead today, near Eastbourne. The first was a large group of curlews, our largest wading bird; but these were high over the feeding grounds. I&#39;ve posted some large versions of some of these which you can get by clicking the relevant photos.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/curlew_large_23011237191.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/curlew_large_2301123719.jpg' \/><\/span><\/a><span class=\"aligncenter\">Click image<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/curlew_large_23011237241.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/curlew_large_2301123724.jpg' \/><\/span><\/a><span class=\"aligncenter\">Click image<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/curlew_large_23011237291.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/curlew_large_2301123729.jpg' \/><\/span><\/a><span class=\"aligncenter\">Click image<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This is a heavier crop (no large version).<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/curlew_2301123720.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Shortly after the curlews had left, a second flock of birds came over. Another unusual one for me, though I&#39;m pleased to say that my attempt at identification proved accurate. These are wigeons. They&#39;re smaller than mallards, and very pretty little ducks when seen on the water. <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/wigeon_large_23011237571.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/wigeon_large_2301123757.jpg' \/><\/span><\/a><span class=\"aligncenter\">Click image<\/span><\/p>\n<p>And a closer crop of the same flock&#8230;<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/wigeon_2301123760.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Three more shots from today (it was a good day), starting with a beautiful little egret.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/little_egret_2301123572.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Next, a pair of canada geese.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/canada_geese_2301123670.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>And finally, after all the exotic species, a blue tit (feeding &#39;antipodean&#39; style).<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/blue_tit_2301123583.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: 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":[980,1004,989],"tags":[45,499,827,697],"class_list":["post-2171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-south-downs-national-park-landscape-2","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-blue-tit","tag-curlew","tag-little-egretcanada-goose","tag-wigeon","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2171","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=2171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}