{"id":2301,"date":"2012-06-14T23:06:27","date_gmt":"2012-06-14T22:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2301"},"modified":"2013-11-04T22:36:40","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T22:36:40","slug":"a-different-kind-of-gull-a-swallow-and-a-high-rise-squirrel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/a-different-kind-of-gull-a-swallow-and-a-high-rise-squirrel\/","title":{"rendered":"A Different Kind of Gull, a Swallow, and a High Rise Squirrel"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The brief moment of summer weather lasted until early afternoon. It&#39;s back to the rain again for now. Fortunately, the unseasonal weather (by which I mean the sunshine) lasted long enough for a few photos down at the pond. I&#39;ll start with the early morning shots, which while not perfect are among my better attempts to photograph swallows as they skim the surface of the water in search of insects.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/swallow_1406123051.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/swallow_1406123041.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The rain held off through the lunch period, when I was back at the pond, showing a group of colleagues some of the local sights. Among the inevitable herring gulls I spotted one interloper: a great black backed gull. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/great_black_backed_gull_1406123090.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>This bird is quite a bit larger than both the herring gulls and the lesser black-backed gull <a href=\"http:\/\/my.opera.com\/Words\/blog\/2012\/06\/12\/duels\" target=\"_blank\">spotted on Tuesday<\/a>. Size is one part of the identification. The other is the colour of the legs. The lesser variant has distinctive yellow legs. The great black-backed has flesh\/pink legs. But you can only see the legs when it&#39;s out of the water&#8230;.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/great_black_backed_gull_1406123123.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/great_black_backed_gull_1406123125.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/great_black_backed_gull_1406123131.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>As well as the wildlife, we also paused to look at the 13th century barn. It&#39;s quite impressive, but my eye caught a tiny figure high at the far end of the roof.  I did not expect to see a squirrel up there&#8230; and I have a feeling neither did the squirrel! <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/squirrel_1406123076.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":[980,50,989],"tags":[522,1141,1165],"class_list":["post-2301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-squirrel","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-great-black-backed-gull","tag-squirrel","tag-swallow","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2301","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=2301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}