{"id":2269,"date":"2012-05-13T23:05:05","date_gmt":"2012-05-13T22:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2269"},"modified":"2013-11-05T19:14:49","modified_gmt":"2013-11-05T19:14:49","slug":"buzzard-being-mobbed-by-gulls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/buzzard-being-mobbed-by-gulls\/","title":{"rendered":"Buzzard Being Mobbed by Gulls"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

I spent the day in the garden. It needed tidying after the recent rain. The wildlife action was all overhead. Early on I spotted a distant sparrowhawk, and right at the end of the day a kestrel flew over. Neither were close enough for usable pictures. A peregrine came over twice. This shot is from the second sighting.
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The main event, however, was the buzzards. Thy were circling periodically through the day, always attracting the attention of the resident herring gulls. Indeed it was the gulls' behaviour that caused me to look up. It was something about the persistence of their calling. This is a short sequence from one of the closer encounters.
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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":[990,980],"tags":[179,68,867,866],"class_list":["post-2269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bird-of-prey","category-birds-2","tag-buzzard","tag-gull","tag-mobbing","tag-peregrin","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t