{"id":2343,"date":"2012-07-27T23:07:52","date_gmt":"2012-07-27T22:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2343"},"modified":"2013-11-04T00:00:07","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T00:00:07","slug":"a-lot-of-swifts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/a-lot-of-swifts\/","title":{"rendered":"A Lot of Swifts"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Just a very brief post tonight, but t afternoon we had a large flock of swifts feeding high above our garden. There were well over 100 wheeling and diving overhead, too many to get in one frame but these two shots give an idea.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/swifts_2707122385.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/swifts_2707122364.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>And one of Shy Boy, the fox cub relaxing last night&#8230;<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fox_cub_2707122257.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Now back to the Olympic Opening Ceremony, which after a slow start has me gripped. Much better than I expected (though the first 20 minutes were baffling and bizarre).<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: swifts taken with the Canon 7D and EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens. Fox taken with the EF70-300mm 4.5-5.6 DO 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":[980,4],"tags":[1142,1128,288],"class_list":["post-2343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-foxes","tag-cub","tag-fox","tag-swifts","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343","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=2343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}