{"id":2434,"date":"2012-10-31T23:10:50","date_gmt":"2012-10-31T23:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2434"},"modified":"2013-11-03T01:00:50","modified_gmt":"2013-11-03T01:00:50","slug":"canada-geese-a-little-grebe-a-heron-and-a-fox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/canada-geese-a-little-grebe-a-heron-and-a-fox\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada Geese, a Little Grebe, a Heron and a Fox"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->A bit of mixed bag today, but I&#39;m making the most of the relatively dry weather. The highlight was a flock of Canada geese flying over farmland early this morning.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/canada_geese_3110121376.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/canada_geese_3110121359.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/canada_geese_3110121355.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>They weren&#39;t the only birds around, but it&#39;s especially nice to spot one of the smaller water birds. This little grebe was busy diving for food, only occasionally pausing on the surface.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/little_grebe_3110121420.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>At the other end of the size scale is the grey heron, even juveniles. This one posed happily on the far bank.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/heron_3110121472.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Back home I&#39;ve been gathering more night footage of the badgers (as well as our numerous foxes) and I&#39;ll post some soon. For now, a relatively rare appearance from Shutterbug, keeping the foxes on the front page of the blog. He came by early this evening, and for once was in a relatively companionable mood. Most times recently he&#39;s simply walked through the garden without paying us any attention at all. His winter coat is now looking near its seasonal best.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/fox_shutterbug_3110121529.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/fox_shutterbug_3110121551.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/fox_shutterbug_3110121558.jpg' \/><\/span> <br \/><span class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/natureblognetwork.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/natureblognetwork.com\/button.php?u=Words\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" alt=\"Nature Blog Network\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/><a title=\"site stats\" href=\"http:\/\/statcounter.com\/free-web-stats\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/c.statcounter.com\/7187219\/0\/2c644058\/1\/\" alt=\"site stats\" style=\"border:none;\" \/><\/a><br \/><i>Camera note: all birds taken with the Canon 7D and EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens. Fox photographed with the EF 24-105 F4L 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":[980,4,989],"tags":[745,1128,1179,709],"class_list":["post-2434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-foxes","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-canada-geese","tag-fox","tag-heron","tag-little-grebe","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2434","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=2434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}