{"id":2217,"date":"2012-03-15T23:03:40","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T23:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2217"},"modified":"2013-11-06T20:47:38","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T20:47:38","slug":"pretty-in-pink-long-tailed-tit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/pretty-in-pink-long-tailed-tit\/","title":{"rendered":"Pretty in Pink (Long-tailed Tit)"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The thick fog which greeted me this morning had largely dispersed by noon and in contrast to yesterday&#39;s focus on the larger avians I turned my camera to one of our smaller birds, the long-tailed tit. Several of them (they tend to fly around in groups) were skittishly hopping between the trees that edge Falmer Pond. Much of the time they were managing to stay partly hidden behind the stray branches (if long-tailed tits have a particular notoriety it&#39;s this talent for evading the camera), but just occasionally one would make a mistake and offer a clear (or nearly clear) shot. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/ltt_1503122448.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/ltt_1503122501.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/ltt_1503122526.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/ltt_1503122527.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile the greylags were enjoying the weak sunshine.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/greylag_1503122561.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The moorhens were rather more active, once again going through their ritual mating duels. I&#39;m looking forward to seeing the young in a month or so. Such <a href=\"http:\/\/my.opera.com\/Words\/blog\/2011\/08\/01\/another-clutch-of-moorhen-chicks-and-other-photos\" target=\"_blank\">ugly little things<\/a>, but so cute.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/moorhen_1503122673.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>As for the local mammals, there were rabbits scuttling through the undergrowth and a lone squirrel scampering down a stone wall.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/squirrel_1503122625.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 EF and 400mm f\/5.6L USM 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":[980,50],"tags":[679,1182,1172,1141],"class_list":["post-2217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-squirrel","tag-greylag","tag-long-tailed-tit","tag-moorhen","tag-squirrel","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217","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=2217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}