{"id":2243,"date":"2012-04-12T23:04:15","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T22:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2243"},"modified":"2013-11-05T21:30:50","modified_gmt":"2013-11-05T21:30:50","slug":"sparrowhawk-on-falmer-parish-council-roof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/sparrowhawk-on-falmer-parish-council-roof\/","title":{"rendered":"Sparrowhawk on Falmer Parish Council Roof"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Three almost identical shots today, the only difference being in the extent of the crop (from none, to quite a lot). <\/p>\n<p>I&#39;d gone to Falmer Pond before work. It was quiet apart from the ducks which have taken to sitting on the churchyard wall, but then in the distance I noticed a lone bird perched on the roof of the parish council building. At first glance I assumed a pigeon, or maybe a collared dove; but something told me otherwise. I was right to look again: it was one of the local sparrowhawks. It quickly moved away, but not before I&#39;d taken a few shots.  The first shot is uncropped.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/sparrowhawk_1204129315.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/sparrowhawk_1204129316.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/sparrowhawk_1204129318.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>And that was more or less that for the day. Lunchtime was another exercise in dodging showers (successfully), and I&#39;ve discovered some new areas to explore over the coming weeks. The only notable wildlife sighting was this yellowhammer.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/yellowhammer_1204129383.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>I even managed to get a shot of it on the wing.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/yellowhammer_1204129388.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Those last two shots were taken high on a hill overlooking the two university campuses. Brighton University is in the foreground; and Sussex is just behind it (there&#39;s actually a four-lane road and a railway track in between them). <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/2xuniversities_1204129406.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 400mm f\/5.6L USM lens except the &#39;two universities&#39; which was taken with the EF 100mm f\/2.8L macro IS 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":[990,980,1003],"tags":[1154,471],"class_list":["post-2243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bird-of-prey","category-birds-2","category-landscape-2","tag-sparrowhawk","tag-yellowhammer","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2243","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=2243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}