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Camera 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":[51,183,1202,109,714,264],"class_list":["post-2356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","tag-blackbird","tag-chiffchaff","tag-fledgling","tag-magpie","tag-moorhen-chick","tag-sparrow","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