{"id":2262,"date":"2012-05-05T00:05:44","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T23:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2262"},"modified":"2013-11-05T20:26:44","modified_gmt":"2013-11-05T20:26:44","slug":"blackcap-wren-and-an-expectant-mum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/blackcap-wren-and-an-expectant-mum\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackcap, Wren and an Expectant Mum"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

A short post today, starting with a couple of shots of a male blackcap which is one of the few warblers I can confidently identify without resorting to books and search engines. They are mainly a summer visitor (from northern Europe), but a small number do winter in the UK.
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Although the blackcap is hardly rare, it cannot compete in terms of numbers with the mighty wren, one of our most numerous birds (as well as being one of the smallest).
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The final shot tonight holds the promise of more chicks in the coming weeks. It's a herring gull nesting on a roof at work. She's the same gull who featured last year, her 'territory' being of almost no range at all. She's a year round resident.
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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":[980],"tags":[621,1158,285],"class_list":["post-2262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","tag-blackcap","tag-herring-gull","tag-wren","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