{"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

The main focus of today'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'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't really see more than a vague shape among the branches.
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The jay was almost as awkward, landing close by but… well you can see for yourself what the problem was.
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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.
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A couple more stray shots to round things off. First a female kestrel spotted hovering just by my building at work.
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And one from early this morning… a backlit robin.
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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":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t