{"id":2235,"date":"2012-04-03T00:04:49","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T23:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2235"},"modified":"2013-11-05T22:12:20","modified_gmt":"2013-11-05T22:12:20","slug":"spring-for-a-day-or-so-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/spring-for-a-day-or-so-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring for a day or so more&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The temperatures have dropped significantly over the past couple of days,and there are forecasts of snow for parts of the country over the next few days. It won&#39;t reach as far south as Brighton, but we may get a few early morning frosts.  That&#39;s fine&#8230; I&#39;d rather clear cold skies than cloud and rain (though we could do with rain to replenish the rivers and reservoirs). <\/p>\n<p>Today at least the sun was still shining. These are some early morning shots taken at Falmer Pond and the surrounding fields.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/rabbit_0204127454.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The rabbits seem to be doing well this year, and look very healthy. I&#39;m pleased to see no signs of myxomatosis, though that may change as we move into summer. <\/p>\n<p>As for the birds, just a couple. First a moorhen in a tree. They never look quite at ease so far off the ground, but the backdrop was just right and the early light was good.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/moorhen_0204127542.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>And one of the very many blackbirds I&#39;m seeing. They seem to be having an exceptionally good year so far. I liked the way this one fanned its tail feathers while giving me one of those stern &#39;out of my way&#39; stares. Telling me who&#39;s boss!<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/blackbird_0204127489.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><\/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":[980,8],"tags":[51,1172,1130],"class_list":["post-2235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-rabbit","tag-blackbird","tag-moorhen","tag-rabbit","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2235","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=2235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}