{"id":2272,"date":"2012-05-17T00:05:05","date_gmt":"2012-05-16T23:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2272"},"modified":"2013-11-05T18:53:45","modified_gmt":"2013-11-05T18:53:45","slug":"a-mixed-bag-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/a-mixed-bag-3\/","title":{"rendered":"A Mixed Bag"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->No photos of the foxes tonight, though I have numerous trail cam clips to work through. I&#39;ll sort some more of those out over the next few days. There are some nice playful moments that the cam caught last night. <\/p>\n<p>Today was bright, but cold; which is fine. At least there was no rain. It was bright enough for this very pretty foal to be up early this morning.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/foal_1605125717.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>At the other end of the scale (size-wise) I ran across multiple clouds of gnats. I&#39;ve given up the thankless task of trying to photograph individual gnats, but if you&#39;re at a loose end you could try counting this little lot.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/gnats_1605125792.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The one unusual capture (not that the subject is particularly rare, just one I don&#39;t see too often), is this shelduck. It was one of a pair that flew over.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/shelduck_1605125818.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Finally, with all those insects about it&#39;s little wonder that the swifts are becoming increasingly active. This is one of the better shots I managed. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/swift_1605125927.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":[980,167,991,3],"tags":[868,869,608,1186],"class_list":["post-2272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-horse","category-insects-2","category-wildlife","tag-foal","tag-gnats","tag-shelduck","tag-swift","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272","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=2272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}