{"id":2267,"date":"2012-05-12T00:05:47","date_gmt":"2012-05-11T23:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2267"},"modified":"2013-11-05T20:18:45","modified_gmt":"2013-11-05T20:18:45","slug":"sunshine-and-missed-opportunities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/sunshine-and-missed-opportunities\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunshine! And Missed Opportunities"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Well very nearly. It&#39;s been bright today, and dry. And it may even stay this way for a few days. Here&#39;s one happy duck enjoying the day.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/duck_1105125002.jpg' \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Much of the rest of the day was a combination of great sightings and terrible photography. Here&#39;s my best shot of a greater spotted woodpecker just yards away from me.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/gsw_1105125102.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Tonight I managed this shot of one of the two vixens. :right:<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/fox_vixen_1105125124.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>And those are the good ones. I missed compeltely a shot of two foxes out on the pavement opposite the house. They were both prone on the ground, calling and screaming. I also missed a beautiful moment of two (yes, a pair) of fox cubs in the garden. At least the trail cam may have picked that one up but I won&#39;t be able to check until tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Shutterbug came through the garden carrying something large, but disappeared behind a shrub before I could photograph him.  At least he had the good manners to return, which is when I took this shot. Not great, but better than nothing.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/fox_shutterbug_1105125122.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Some days it goes like that. There&#39;ll be plenty more chances for something better, and seeing the cubs again is a highly promising sign. So that&#39;s it for tonight. A collection of &#39;might have beens&#39;. But a good collection!<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: duck and woodpecker taken with the Canon 7D and EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens. The foxes were (and were not) photographed with the EF 200mm f\/2.8L II 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":[980,4],"tags":[1160,1128,1185],"class_list":["post-2267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-foxes","tag-duck","tag-fox","tag-greater-spotted-woodpecker","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2267","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=2267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}