{"id":2224,"date":"2012-03-22T23:03:41","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T23:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2224"},"modified":"2013-11-06T20:23:23","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T20:23:23","slug":"duck-up-a-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/duck-up-a-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Duck up a Tree!"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Having captured the relatively rare sight of <a href=\"http:\/\/my.opera.com\/Words\/blog\/2012\/03\/13\/one-white-duck-and-other-ducks\" target=\"_blank\">ducks on a roo<\/a>f last week, I came across this pretty female mallard enjoying the early morning sunshine. She was perched on the boundary wall to the church. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/duck_2203125095.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>There&#39;s nothing unusual about that, but what she did next was a surprise. She flew up into the large tree that is usually one of the preferred roosts of the local jackdaws.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/duck_2203125101.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/duck_2203125134.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>She eventually dug her way into the tick ivy that clings to the tree. She&#39;ll have no problem getting down, but I do hope that she isn&#39;t choosing that spot (about 30&#39; above ground level) for egg-laying. That could cause problems when she decides to lead the chicks to water! <\/p>\n<p>Back home we had a surprise visitor this evening. Yes, Shutterbug the fox made a brief call.  Nice to see him again. He&#39;s started his moult, and looked tired but otherwise well.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/fox_shutterbug_2203125305.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>And to close, one more of the owls. This time another flight shot of the tawny, taken in the late afternoon light over more open ground.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/tawny_owl_2003124704.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: duck shots taken with the Canon 7D EF and 400mm f\/5.6L USM lens. The fox was photgraphed with the EF 100mm f\/2.8L macro IS USM lens, and the owl with the EF 200mm f\/2.8L II 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":[990,980,4,989],"tags":[1160,1128,848,1151],"class_list":["post-2224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bird-of-prey","category-birds-2","category-foxes","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-duck","tag-fox","tag-tawny-owl","tag-tree","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224","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=2224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}