{"id":2255,"date":"2012-04-26T23:04:43","date_gmt":"2012-04-26T22:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2255"},"modified":"2013-11-05T21:08:41","modified_gmt":"2013-11-05T21:08:41","slug":"long-distance-hare-and-other-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/long-distance-hare-and-other-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Distance Hare and other photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

I'll start with a photo taken early this morning. I was walking around the edge of Falmer Pond and glanced out over the adjacent fields. I'm ever hopeful of seeing a fox out there (they are around but very secretive), but what caught my eye was a 'large rabbit'. It was a very long way off and of course it wasn't a rabbit, but a hare. It paused briefly and then bounded along the gap in the crops before disappearing into the thicker cover.
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There weren't really any other surprises today, but I did find time to watch the yellowhammers which were flocking with the local sparrows.
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In another sign of the prospect of summer, a lone house martin flew overhead. The shot's not up to much, but it's a way of recording the first martin of the year… just a few days after the first swallow.
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For the rest, I'll leave it to the goslings. There is still only the pair, but they are being well protected. A phalanx of greylags lined the bank keeping a watchful eye.
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And out on the water the familiar white goose is once again acting as protector-in-chief to the young.
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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":[674,989],"tags":[340,679,1192,562,264,471],"class_list":["post-2255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hare","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-gosling","tag-greylag","tag-hare","tag-house-martin","tag-sparrow","tag-yellowhammer","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t