{"id":2193,"date":"2012-02-16T22:02:01","date_gmt":"2012-02-16T22:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2193"},"modified":"2013-11-06T21:27:37","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T21:27:37","slug":"a-rare-sighting-hen-harrier-and-some-pretty-long-tailed-tits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/a-rare-sighting-hen-harrier-and-some-pretty-long-tailed-tits\/","title":{"rendered":"A Rare Sighting (Hen Harrier) and some pretty long-tailed tits"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Two birds featured today, and I&#39;ll start with the rare sighting. Indeed, my first ever sighting of this majestic bird of prey. I spotted something in the distance as I was photographing today&#39;s second subject. I&#39;d glanced up and over the fields in the distance I saw a large raptor. I fired off about half a dozen shots before it was fully out of range. These are hefty crops, but they show enough for an identification (courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wildaboutbritain.co.uk\/forums\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">Wild About Britain<\/a> forums). It&#39;s a female hen harrier. We do get very occasional reports of them locally, but they are mainly located in the north of the country. According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rspb.org.uk\/wildlife\/birdguide\/name\/h\/henharrier\/index.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">RSPB<\/a>, the ones seen in the south are probably migrants from Europe. Hen harriers are also our most persecuted raptor. These shots are not top quality, but that really doesn&#39;t matter!<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/raptor_1602127851.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/raptor_1602127852.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/raptor_1602127853.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The other bird (or birds, there were several of them) I photographed was the long-tailed tit, for once not obscured by twigs, branches and just about anything else they can manage to hide behind. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/ltt_1602127871.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/ltt_1602127886.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/ltt_1602127888.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/ltt_1602127916.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":[990,980],"tags":[834,1182],"class_list":["post-2193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bird-of-prey","category-birds-2","tag-hen-harrier","tag-long-tailed-tit","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2193","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=2193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}