{"id":2392,"date":"2012-09-16T00:09:02","date_gmt":"2012-09-15T23:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2392"},"modified":"2013-11-03T20:43:41","modified_gmt":"2013-11-03T20:43:41","slug":"a-couple-of-raptors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/a-couple-of-raptors\/","title":{"rendered":"A Couple of Raptors"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

This seems to be a good time of year for the birds of prey. I've been having great success with kestrels recently, but these first shots are of a sparrowhawk and I didn't even need to leave home to get the photograph. It flew in low over our garden, presumably looking for prey.
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The next shots are of a kestrel skimming over the downs at Sheepcote Valley.
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And the final pair, to keep thing even…. a sparrowhawk field skimming near Falmer, and (in roughly the same location) a kestrel perched on a TV mast.
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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":[990,980],"tags":[1152,1154],"class_list":["post-2392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bird-of-prey","category-birds-2","tag-kestrel","tag-sparrowhawk","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