{"id":2384,"date":"2012-09-07T00:09:39","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T23:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2384"},"modified":"2013-11-03T20:54:29","modified_gmt":"2013-11-03T20:54:29","slug":"time-for-kestrel-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/time-for-kestrel-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Time for Kestrel"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->I&#39;d need to check back to be sure, but it feels as though it&#39;s been a very quiet year on the kestrel front. Not that I don&#39;t see them, but they&#39;re often to far off for decent shots, or I&#39;m in the car, or some other reason intervenes. So today I went out in search of them at Sheepcote Valley. There were three just beyond the entrance as I arrived, but they&#39;d flown off before I was even out of the car. Hmm&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>I spent an hour or so wandering around the valley. I think I saw a stoat, but I could be mistaken. I saw a couple of kestrels on the other side of the valley (it made no difference which side I was on&#8230; they were on the other side). I photographed a swallow in flight.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/swallow_0609121031.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>I managed a wheatear on the wing.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/wheatear_0609121019.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The kestrels were proving elusive, but persistence is a virtue and eventually I had some minor success. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/kestrel_0609121044.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>More tracking around led me to a small copse where I did slightly better.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/kestrel_0609121077.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The rest for today is from the garden&#8230; and yes that means <s>foxes<\/s> badgers \ud83d\ude09 This is one of the juveniles.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/badger_0609121162.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/badger_0609121176.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/badger_0609121192.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>And some trail cam footage from last night&#8230; short sequences of &#39;pairs&#39; featuring foxes and badgers. Just to note that the fox in the opening sequence is the very shy cub with the &#39;nicked&#39;  ear. I managed a single photo of her during the entire spring, so it&#39;s good to see that she is still around. She was cub number 4. <\/p>\n<div class=\"reactr-oembed-wrap clr\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Fox and Badger Pairs\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eQBuhA3u9bk?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: bird shots taken with the Canon 7D  and EF 400mm f\/5.6L USM lens; badger photographed with the EF 200mm f\/2.8L II USM lens; video from 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":[994,990,980,3],"tags":[160,1128,1152,1165,463],"class_list":["post-2384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-badger-wildlife","category-bird-of-prey","category-birds-2","category-wildlife","tag-badger-2","tag-fox","tag-kestrel","tag-swallow","tag-wheatear","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2384","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=2384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}