{"id":2305,"date":"2012-06-19T00:06:01","date_gmt":"2012-06-18T23:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2305"},"modified":"2013-11-04T22:05:46","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T22:05:46","slug":"fishy-tales-ducklings-and-the-inevitable-fox-cubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/fishy-tales-ducklings-and-the-inevitable-fox-cubs\/","title":{"rendered":"Fishy Tales, Ducklings, and the inevitable fox cubs"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The beginning of the week always seems to bring changes, and today was no different. Down at the pond the fish were the story of the day. They were in a frenzy of activity, pairs and small groups of carp thrashing around near the bank, and the occasional leaper out in the centre of the pond. I&#39;m not at all sure why they were behaving like this. Lack of oxygen in the water is one theory, but although it&#39;s a little late in the season I suspect this is part of their mating behaviour. It was too widespread, too many groups in too many parts of the pond and in the morning which is typical for mating carp, to really be anything else; and the pond is quite healthy.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/carp_1806123820.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/carp_1806123848.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>That was the morning. Lunchtime brought a second surprise, and a very pretty one. There&#39;s a new family of ducklings on the pond. I counted 11 of them, and they were being carefully herded around by watchful parents.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ducklings_1806124066.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ducklings_1806124074.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Finally, a very quick sequence of three consecutive frames showing two of the fox cubs about an hour ago.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/fox_cub_1806124211.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/fox_cub_1806124212.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/fox_cub_1806124213.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 pond photos taken with the Canon 7D and EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens. Foxes photographed with the EF 24-105 F4L IS USM  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":[1040,4,989],"tags":[879,1142,1176,1128,1133],"class_list":["post-2305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fish-2","category-foxes","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-carp","tag-cub","tag-duckling","tag-fox","tag-mating","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305","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=2305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}