{"id":2183,"date":"2012-02-06T22:02:07","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T22:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2183"},"modified":"2013-11-06T21:59:56","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T21:59:56","slug":"snow-clad-pond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/snow-clad-pond\/","title":{"rendered":"Snow-clad Pond"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Although the thaw is under way, there was plenty of snow on the ground at Falmer Pond today. Here are a few shots, starting with the scene early this morning.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/falmer_ice_0602125601.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/falmer_ice_0602125612.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>I even spotted the piebald jackdaw hopping around.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/jackdaw_snow_0602125638.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>It had brightened up a touch by lunchtime, and the ducks were to the fore.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/duck_0602125726.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/duck_snow_0602125790.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The black-headed gulls were also enjoying themselves.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/black_headed_gull_0602125723.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/black_headed_gull_0602125767.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Not to be outdone, the moorhens were slipping and sliding through the covering of slush over the pond. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/moorhen_0602125701.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The final shot today doesn&#39;t feature any of the snow. It&#39;s a lone blue tit hanging on the the side of the church clock tower. A simple, minimalist  shot; but I like it.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/blue_tit_0602125758.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":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[980,16,989],"tags":[378,45,150,47,1172,1136],"class_list":["post-2183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-snow","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-black-headed-gull","tag-blue-tit","tag-ducks","tag-jackdaw","tag-moorhen","tag-snow","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2183","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=2183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}