{"id":2211,"date":"2012-03-10T00:03:12","date_gmt":"2012-03-10T00:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2211"},"modified":"2013-11-06T20:57:29","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T20:57:29","slug":"churchyard-ducks-and-local-woods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/churchyard-ducks-and-local-woods\/","title":{"rendered":"Churchyard Ducks and Local Woods"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->I took a quick detour to the local churchyard this morning. No jackdaws to talk about, but a very pretty female blackbird made up for their absence.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/blackbird_0903121084.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The ducks also seem to like an early morning stroll through the gravestones&#8230;<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/duck_0903121104.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/duck_0903121114.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/duck_0903121127.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>That wasn&#39;t my main destination though. There have been reports that the owls may have reappeared in some local woods. I didn&#39;t see any sign of them, but the woods proved a good location and I will re-visit. The photos I managed today are on the low side of poor, the best of the batch being this green woodpecker.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/gwp_0903121134.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Photography in wooded areas is tricky. As well as struggling for light (and that will get worse as the trees come into leaf), everything is masked by a dense network of branches. Yes, I&#39;m getting the excuses in early for what are among the worst photos I&#39;ve posted here. Treat these as a &#39;diary entry&#39; and no more. I spotted this next bird twice during the day. Both times I scarcely had time to raise the camera as it flew out through the trees, and focusing was near impossible. It&#39;s nothing more exotic than a buzzard, but to have one more or less literally on my doorstep is quite exciting. If I&#39;m right and it has taken up residence I hope to do better in the future.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/buzzard_0903121152.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/buzzard_0903121172.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":[990,980,989],"tags":[51,179,1160,222],"class_list":["post-2211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bird-of-prey","category-birds-2","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-blackbird","tag-buzzard","tag-duck","tag-green-woodpecker","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211","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=2211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}