{"id":2333,"date":"2012-07-17T23:07:52","date_gmt":"2012-07-17T22:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2333"},"modified":"2013-11-04T19:21:19","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T19:21:19","slug":"one-swallow-doesnt-make-a-summer-but-it-helps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/one-swallow-doesnt-make-a-summer-but-it-helps\/","title":{"rendered":"One Swallow Doesn&#8217;t Make a Summer (but it helps!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->You could knock me down with a feather but we&#39;ve had another rainless day, and the forecasts are finally indicating that something approximating summer might be on the way. That said, this evening brought a shroud of mist to the Downs; thankfully now clearing away.<\/p>\n<p>The better light and hint of warmth brought out the insects, and with them the swallows. Not many, but they were feeding voraciously over the pond.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/swallow_1707120153.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/swallow_1707120160.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>There are three new moorhen chicks as well. They were hidden in the undergrowth and all but evaded the camera. An slightly older moorhen, now in its lean juvenile phase was perched on the tree overhanging the central island. There was even a hint of sun to help draw out some colour.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/moorhen_juvenile_1707120113.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Beneath the water the carp are lazily grazing on the food thrown for the ducks.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/carp_1707120201.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The foxes have been relatively quiet for the past couple of days. There were glimpses of the adults on the trail cam last night (as well as cubs). And then there was this&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"reactr-oembed-wrap clr\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A Badger Calls\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/f5WFzGdN9Jk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><i>Camera note: all shots taken with the Canon 7D and EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens. Video caught by the Bushnell Trophy Cam.<\/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":[994,980,1040,3],"tags":[160,879,1172,1165],"class_list":["post-2333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-badger-wildlife","category-birds-2","category-fish-2","category-wildlife","tag-badger-2","tag-carp","tag-moorhen","tag-swallow","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2333","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=2333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}