{"id":2395,"date":"2012-09-19T00:09:11","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T23:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2395"},"modified":"2013-11-03T19:09:39","modified_gmt":"2013-11-03T19:09:39","slug":"perched-on-a-precipice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/perched-on-a-precipice\/","title":{"rendered":"Perched… on a precipice"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

One of the things I like about birds is how they adapt to their surroundings. Such as this gull…
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And I hope whoever lives here didn't suffer interference on their television…
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Herons, even when they are in a devilish mood, prefer to stick to what they know… trees.
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And as for badgers, they are perched on the precipice of a cull (which could start within days), so an urgent reminder (if you are in the UK) to sign the e-petition calling for a halt. It's bad science, bad for wildlife and won't curb bovine TB. Many of the culled badgers are likely to be the healthy ones and the disruption to territorial activity (perturbation) may even spread the risk of bovine TB. In other words the cull could make things worse not better. We need to put resources into oral vaccines which will deliver long-term, sustainable results; not into unscientific culls. More information on the Team Badger<\/a> campaign site.
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Please make sure you sign the 'Stop the Badger Cull'<\/a> e-petition. 100,000 signatures are needed to trigger a debate in Parliament.
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Camera note: bird shots taken with the Canon 7D and EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens. Badger 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":[994,980],"tags":[160,276,68,1179],"class_list":["post-2395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-badger-wildlife","category-birds-2","tag-badger-2","tag-collared-dove","tag-gull","tag-heron","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