{"id":22725,"date":"2015-02-06T23:37:18","date_gmt":"2015-02-06T23:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/?p=22725"},"modified":"2015-02-06T23:37:18","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T23:37:18","slug":"fieldfare-at-falmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/fieldfare-at-falmer\/","title":{"rendered":"Fieldfare at Falmer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Having featured the blackbird yesterday<\/a>, today’s bird is a close relation. It’s another of the family Turdidae<\/em>, this time the much less commonly seen Fieldfare (Turdus pilaris)<\/em>. Like the blackbird, it’s a member of the thrush family, but it tends to keep well away from inhabited areas, preferring woodland fringe and fields (hence its name). <\/p>\n

I’d hiked across a couple of fields at lunchtime. It was beautiful out, but cold, so a walk seemed to make more sense than freezing at the edge of the pond. I headed for a small wood just to the south of Falmer (and just inside the South Downs National Park). <\/p>\n

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There hadn’t been too much to see, and maybe it was the cold but I got a little creative with the camera. It makes a change to try something different every now and then.<\/p>\n

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Emerging from the woods, and still having seen little if any wildlife, I came across a lone fieldfare. It’s something of a winter bird so it was probably less bothered by the cold than I was. It was bracing itself against the chill wind. <\/p>\n

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It was a treat to get such a clear shot, even from quite a distance away. <\/p>\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":"

Having featured the blackbird yesterday, today’s bird is a close relation. It’s another of the family Turdidae, this time the much less commonly seen Fieldfare (Turdus pilaris). Like the blackbird, it’s a member of the thrush family, but it tends to keep well away from inhabited areas, preferring woodland fringe and fields (hence its name). […]<\/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":[980,1003,1004],"tags":[512,110],"class_list":["post-22725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-landscape-2","category-south-downs-national-park-landscape-2","tag-fieldfare","tag-woodland","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