{"id":2331,"date":"2012-07-15T22:07:44","date_gmt":"2012-07-15T21:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2331"},"modified":"2013-11-04T20:30:57","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T20:30:57","slug":"feeding-bees-fox-portraits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/feeding-bees-fox-portraits\/","title":{"rendered":"Feeding Bees \/ Fox Portraits"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Believe it or not we&#39;ve had a mostly sunny day today, with no sign of rain. A few dark clouds threatened, but nothing came if it (for once). It won&#39;t last, but it gave our local bee population the excuse to come and raid the lavender. Most looked in fine shape but one laggard was clearly a little less fit than the others and suffered a minor plummet to ground level. The odds are that it was exhausted and cold. Time to feed it up with a solution of 1 part sugar to 20 parts water.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/bee_drink_1507129601.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>It took a while, but eventually it started to feed. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/bee_drink_1507129692.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/bee_drink_1507129696.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>I&#39;m not sure how well our treatment worked. The bee did start to scuttle around in a more lively fashion, and eventually it tried to scale the wall back up to the flower bed.. It fell off once, so we picked it up on a lavender stem and placed it at the top of the raised bed. Later we spotted it settled on a leaf, but still seemingly unable to fly. By tonight it was gone.<\/p>\n<p>Another garden visitor enjoying the dry weather was the young vixen, Poppy. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fox_cub_poppy_1507129542.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fox_cub_poppy_1507129574.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fox_cub_poppy_1507129583.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: foxes and the first bee shot taken with the Canon 7D  and EF 200mm f\/2.8L II USM. The macros of the bee were taken with the EF 100mm f\/2.8L macro IS USM lens and the internal flash.<\/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":[993,4,991],"tags":[1145,1128],"class_list":["post-2331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bee-insects-2","category-foxes","category-insects-2","tag-bee","tag-fox","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2331","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=2331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}