{"id":2246,"date":"2012-04-17T00:04:18","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T23:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2246"},"modified":"2013-11-05T21:27:19","modified_gmt":"2013-11-05T21:27:19","slug":"mainly-chaffinch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/mainly-chaffinch\/","title":{"rendered":"Mainly Chaffinch&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->I see them all the time, but rarely photograph them. Chaffinches are very common, but the males bring a true splash of colour with their red plumage and metal-blue beak. They are currently in courtship mode, and pairs are flitting around and through trees at breakneck speed. Maybe I&#39;ll manage a shot of that, but so far I&#39;ve not succeeded. I did get some nice shots of the male, including a couple of in-flight frames. Both are slightly marred.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/chaffinch_1604129882.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/chaffinch_1604129913.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/chaffinch_1604129902.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>There were other birds about (of course), including several mistle thrush&#8230;<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/mistle_thrush_1604129957.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>&#8230; an elegant pair of greylags<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/greylag_1604129889.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and a sure sign that it is not yet summer. A lone swallow.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/swallow_1604129967.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.<\/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],"tags":[162,679,513,1165],"class_list":["post-2246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","tag-chaffinch","tag-greylag","tag-mistle-thrush","tag-swallow","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2246","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=2246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}