{"id":2315,"date":"2012-06-29T00:06:29","date_gmt":"2012-06-28T23:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2315"},"modified":"2013-11-04T21:23:30","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T21:23:30","slug":"swifts-swallows-and-a-woodpecker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/swifts-swallows-and-a-woodpecker\/","title":{"rendered":"Swifts, Swallows and a Woodpecker"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was actually hot today… until the afternoon when the mists rolled in once again and chilled the air. But it was good while it lasted, and the fine weather got me through the early morning and lunchtime well enough.<\/p>\n

This shot was taken at just after 8.00am. It looks like a young woodpecker (a greater spotted), and nice to have the outline of a swift flying over.
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The swifts were extremely active which gave me the chance later in the day to try the usually thankless task of photographing a swift over the water. Today I was in luck and this is by far the best low-flight shot of a swift I’ve managed.
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Slightly easier (because slower) was this fledgling swallow.
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And it was the fledglings that filled up the remainder of the camera’s data card. Not difficult when they make it this <\/i>easy.
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The sitting around has a purpose (of course). Staying still means the adults can find you again. And that means food. So much easier than trying to catch your own. The next three shots are consecutive frames (i.e. less than half a second for the lot).
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\nCamera 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],"tags":[1202,1185,1165,1186],"class_list":["post-2315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","tag-fledgling","tag-greater-spotted-woodpecker","tag-swallow","tag-swift","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