{"id":2195,"date":"2012-02-20T23:02:52","date_gmt":"2012-02-20T23:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2195"},"modified":"2013-11-06T21:24:01","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T21:24:01","slug":"jay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/jay\/","title":{"rendered":"Jay"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The main focus of today&#39;s blog is just a handful of shots of a jay that I spotted while out by the fields at lunchtime. It had been quiet and all I&#39;d seen (apart from some sheep and cattle in the distance) was a lone buzzard perched high in a very distant tree. I did take a photo but you can&#39;t really see more than a vague shape among the branches. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/buzzard_2002128410.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The jay was almost as awkward, landing close by but&#8230; well you can see for yourself what the problem was.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/jay_2002128396.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>It was then that my luck changed, and I managed a brief sequence as it flew across the open field to a much less tangled tree nearby.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/jay_2002128399.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/jay_2002128405.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/jay_2002128406.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>A couple more stray shots to round things off. First a female kestrel spotted hovering just by my building at work. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/kestrel_2002128457.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>And one from early this morning&#8230; a backlit robin. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/robin_2002128348.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],"tags":[179,467,1152,78],"class_list":["post-2195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","tag-buzzard","tag-jay","tag-kestrel","tag-robin","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2195","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=2195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}