{"id":23122,"date":"2015-03-24T23:54:39","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T23:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/?p=23122"},"modified":"2015-03-24T23:54:39","modified_gmt":"2015-03-24T23:54:39","slug":"chiffchaff-mainly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/chiffchaff-mainly\/","title":{"rendered":"Chiffchaff (mainly)"},"content":{"rendered":"

There a couple of other creatures featured today, but the main bird of the day is this pretty little chiffchaff… if indeed it is a chiffchaff. It could easily be a willow warbler. It would have been easier to i.d. if it had been singing, but it wasn’t so I’m relying on the fact that it has dark legs. Either way, they are very cute little birds and this one was playing hard to get by flitting between several trees and usually perching just behind a hefty branch.<\/p>\n

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I keep promising ducks, and if I don’t post some now these will get lost on the hard drive. First up is a female mallard, perched on the stone wall that runs along the churchyard at Falmer. As you can see, it was raining slightly (and obviously a touch overcast).<\/p>\n

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Here’s a male, landing on the pond. This one was taken in the middle of the day.<\/p>\n

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Last shot is from the morning again… another local rat, looking pretty in the undergrowth.<\/p>\n

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No badgers tonight. I’ve spent some time outside, but it was quiet (and cold). Maybe more soon. We’ll see.<\/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":"

There a couple of other creatures featured today, but the main bird of the day is this pretty little chiffchaff… if indeed it is a chiffchaff. It could easily be a willow warbler. It would have been easier to i.d. if it had been singing, but it wasn’t so I’m relying on the fact that […]<\/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":[980,781,989],"tags":[183,529,1160,1183],"class_list":["post-23122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-rats","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-chiffchaff","tag-chiffchaffwillow-warbler","tag-duck","tag-rat","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