{"id":2260,"date":"2012-05-02T22:05:51","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T21:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2260"},"modified":"2013-11-05T20:58:38","modified_gmt":"2013-11-05T20:58:38","slug":"more-herons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/more-herons\/","title":{"rendered":"More Herons"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The local gulls really don&#39;t like having a resident heron on the pond. I watched this morning as multiple gulls swooped and mobbed a heron who was simply minding its own business perched on the &#39;No Fishing&#39; sign.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/heron_gull_0205123526.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The heron put up with this treatment for several minutes, calling and ducking, before eventually slipping away to the dense cover at the edge of the pond. The gulls won&#39;t shift this bird, and I expect that they will eventually get used to its presence. <\/p>\n<p>Later in the day I came across more herons, in a different location. These are I think my first photos of a heron in flight with a fish in its bill. Ok, you need a magnifying glass to see the fish, but it is is there. Really. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/heron_0205123621.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/heron_0205123624.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/heron_0205123624_crop.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Finally, as  a bit of wildlife record-keeping, here&#39;s my first photo this year of a swift. That means all three of the small aerial acrobats (swallows, house martins and swifts) have arrived from their winter migrations. The skies will be busy from now on. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/swift_0205123597.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":[989],"tags":[68,1179,1186],"class_list":["post-2260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-gull","tag-heron","tag-swift","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260","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=2260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}