{"id":2388,"date":"2012-09-11T23:09:23","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T22:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2388"},"modified":"2013-11-03T20:48:12","modified_gmt":"2013-11-03T20:48:12","slug":"poor-little-sparrow-bird-tick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/poor-little-sparrow-bird-tick\/","title":{"rendered":"Poor Little Sparrow (bird tick)"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

This probably looks worse than it is, but it is quite a common bird affliction. This juvenile sparrow has acquired a large tick, which typically attaches to the head near the eye. The location is simply the most efficient as by latching on there the bird is unable to remove it through preening. The tick will gorge itself before eventually falling away after about a week. From what I can discover, unless it causes infection the bird will be fine (though I am willing to be corrected on this). Ticks can carry diseases which affect humans (e.g. lyme disease).
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That was taken at the edge of Falmer Pond. This is a view of the pond and church from a high vantage point.
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No badgers yet tonight, but Shutterbug flew the flag for the foxes with a brief mid-evening stroll around the garden.
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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, except the fox which was photographed with the EF 200mm f\/2.8L II 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":[980,4,1003,1004],"tags":[903,1159,1128,264,771],"class_list":["post-2388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-foxes","category-landscape-2","category-south-downs-national-park-landscape-2","tag-bird-tick","tag-falmer","tag-fox","tag-sparrow","tag-tick","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