{"id":2381,"date":"2012-09-04T00:09:40","date_gmt":"2012-09-03T23:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2381"},"modified":"2013-11-03T20:59:10","modified_gmt":"2013-11-03T20:59:10","slug":"common-terns-holly-blues-and-a-badger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/common-terns-holly-blues-and-a-badger\/","title":{"rendered":"Common Terns, Holly Blues, and a Badger"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

Not altogether, of course. The common terns were the pick of the sea birds spotted this afternoon between Rottingdean and Saltdean. Typically they were hiding themselves in plain view among a small group of black headed gulls.
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The day had started with grey skies, but became progressively sunnier as the hours ticked by. By late afternoon the garden was bathed in sunshine, which is when I took these shots of a holly blue butterfly on a plant I'm reliably informed is called 'golden rod'<\/s> I am told is a variety of helenium<\/i>
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Somehow I missed this bird from the blog title, but maybe that's because it's small and was trying hard not to be seen. A blue tit eating an apple! One peck at a time.
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As ever, I'll include a shot from tonight. This is the adult badger, Lumpy.
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Camera note: all bird shots taken with the Canon 7D and EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens. Everything else taken with the EF 100mm f\/2.8L macro IS USM 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":[994,980,992,991,989],"tags":[160,378,45,862,897],"class_list":["post-2381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-badger-wildlife","category-birds-2","category-butterfly-insects-2","category-insects-2","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-badger-2","tag-black-headed-gull","tag-blue-tit","tag-common-tern","tag-holly-blue-butterfly","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