{"id":2187,"date":"2012-02-11T00:02:32","date_gmt":"2012-02-11T00:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2187"},"modified":"2013-11-06T21:41:40","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T21:41:40","slug":"black-and-white-with-a-splash-of-colour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/black-and-white-with-a-splash-of-colour\/","title":{"rendered":"Black and White with a splash of colour"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->There was more snow overnight. Not too much, but some of it settled to provide a snowy white backdrop to the Downs this morning. <\/p>\n<p>A few days ago I posted a picture of a black-headed gull midway to displaying its summer plumage. Today&#39;s gull has gone the whole distance, and I guess must be feeling rather silly about it!<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/black_headed_gull_1002126531.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Staying monochromatic, the next shot is one of many I&#39;ve taken recently of blackbirds in the snow. This was at lunchtime today.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/blackbird_1002126495.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Earlier I&#39;d taken this shot of a much smaller monochrome bird, a pied wagtail. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/pwt_1002126442.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>And at lunchtime, this shot of a gull feeding frenzy. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/gulls_1002126623.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>As for a splash of colour, I think this shot of a yellowhammer counts.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/yellowhammer_1002126663.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>As does this shot of the tree which is situated on the pond island. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/snow_tree_1002126476.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The wildlife sighting of the day came as I was about to head back to work. A sparrowhawk flew overhead&#8230;.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/sparrowhawk_1002126692.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>It landed briefly in one of the trees by the side of the pond. I couldn&#39;t get a clear shot, but this is still one of the very few photos I&#39;ve ever managed of a spr&#39;awk perching so I&#39;m including it!<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/sparrowhawk_1002126696.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>As a way of signing off the week, a final few shots of the snow before it&#39;s all gone.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/village_way_1002126700.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/village_way_1002126705.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/ice_1002126630.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":[378,51,120,1136,471],"class_list":["post-2187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-snow","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-black-headed-gull","tag-blackbird","tag-pied-wagtail","tag-snow","tag-yellowhammer","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187","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=2187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}