{"id":22714,"date":"2015-02-05T23:51:14","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T23:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/?p=22714"},"modified":"2015-02-05T23:51:14","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T23:51:14","slug":"blackbird-male-and-female","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/blackbird-male-and-female\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackbird (male and female)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some more images of commonplace birds, this time the blackbird (Turdus merula<\/em>). For the male at least, the naming is clearly descriptive: the blackbird is indeed black. It generally also has an orange beak, tongue and eye-ring. Less often the beak and eye-ring are red<\/a>, but orange is the classic and most common form.<\/p>\n

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Blackbird (male) singing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Blackbird (male) eating a berry<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Those were taken yesterday (but were put to one side in favour of the wren<\/a>. The next three shots were taken today, on the edge of a woodland path. It’s the female of the species, and she is brown… from beak to tail. <\/p>\n

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Female blackbird head on<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Female blackbird side view<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Female blackbird in angry mode!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Camera note: all photos taken with the Canon 7D Mark II and EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L IS II USM lens.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some more images of commonplace birds, this time the blackbird (Turdus merula). For the male at least, the naming is clearly descriptive: the blackbird is indeed black. It generally also has an orange beak, tongue and eye-ring. Less often the beak and eye-ring are red, but orange is the classic and most common form. Those […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[980,3],"tags":[51],"class_list":["post-22714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-wildlife","tag-blackbird","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