{"id":22910,"date":"2015-03-02T22:55:57","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T22:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/?p=22910"},"modified":"2015-03-02T22:55:57","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T22:55:57","slug":"five-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/five-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is something of a return to some of the more regular species that abound at this time of year. Birds are getting ready for nesting and mating, and &#8211; common species at least &#8211; are very easy to see.<\/p>\n<p>The crows are busy gathering nesting material.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/crow_0203157100.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/crow_0203157100-600x386.jpg\" alt=\"Crow carrying twig\" width=\"600\" height=\"386\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-22911\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/crow_0203157100-600x386.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/crow_0203157100-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/crow_0203157100.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The blackbirds are taking to the rooftops&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/blackbird_0203157142.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/blackbird_0203157142-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"Blackbird on roof\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-22912\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/blackbird_0203157142-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/blackbird_0203157142-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/blackbird_0203157142.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The robins are everywhere. This one was in a small wooded area near Falmer Pond. Nice early morning sunshine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/robin_0203157134.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/robin_0203157134-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"Robin in tree\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-22913\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/robin_0203157134-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/robin_0203157134-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/robin_0203157134.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Possibly my favourite of the early birds, was this male mallard quietly sitting on the church wall. It took me an age to get round to the best angle, but here it is. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/duck_0203157229.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/duck_0203157229-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"Duck on wall\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-22914\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/duck_0203157229-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/duck_0203157229-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/duck_0203157229.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The final shot was taken at lunchtime, when the light was less helpful. It made a change to see a herring gull doing nothing much at all. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/herring_gull_0203157444.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/herring_gull_0203157444-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"herring gull\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-22915\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/herring_gull_0203157444-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/herring_gull_0203157444-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/herring_gull_0203157444.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>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":"<p>This is something of a return to some of the more regular species that abound at this time of year. Birds are getting ready for nesting and mating, and &#8211; common species at least &#8211; are very easy to see. The crows are busy gathering nesting material. The blackbirds are taking to the rooftops&#8230; The [&hellip;]<\/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":[980,989],"tags":[51,44,1160,1158,190,78],"class_list":["post-22910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-blackbird","tag-crow","tag-duck","tag-herring-gull","tag-mallard","tag-robin","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22910","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=22910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}