{"id":2250,"date":"2012-04-21T00:04:18","date_gmt":"2012-04-20T23:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2250"},"modified":"2013-11-05T21:23:05","modified_gmt":"2013-11-05T21:23:05","slug":"a-wren-a-skylark-and-a-spitfire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/a-wren-a-skylark-and-a-spitfire\/","title":{"rendered":"A Wren, A Skylark&#8230; and a Spitfire"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Two birds today, both taken early this morning.  First up is a particularly feisty wren, which boldly sat out in the open singing with all its might. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/wren_2004120924.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/wren_2004120938.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The second bird, the skylark, embodies the sound of spring and summer with its rapid, trilling song. They spend much of the time hovering high overhead with a song on their beak.  When the song runs out, they descend in a spiral as their trilling unwinds. Usually they settle in the thick long grass, but this one came to rest on a &#39;lofty&#39; perch. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/skylark_2004121004.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Lunchtime served up a quite unexpected treat. I had literally just walked out of the office when an utterly distinctive sound filled my ears. It was the unmistakeable growl of a Spitfire. It wasn&#39;t  just passing over either. It was there for a mini display at the local football club in early celebration of St George&#39;s Day (which is actually Monday). A brass band was playing the Dambusters theme, and the lone Spitfire climbed, looped, and wing-waggled for about 10 minutes. Yes I got lots of photos.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/spitfire_2004121081.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/spitfire_2004121139.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/spitfire_2004121161.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/spitfire_2004121162.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 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS 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":[980,1],"tags":[316,451,285],"class_list":["post-2250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-uncategorized","tag-skylark","tag-spitfire","tag-wren","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250","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=2250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}