{"id":2438,"date":"2012-11-05T22:11:53","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T22:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2438"},"modified":"2013-11-03T00:55:31","modified_gmt":"2013-11-03T00:55:31","slug":"small-birds-and-naming-conventions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/small-birds-and-naming-conventions\/","title":{"rendered":"Small Birds and naming conventions"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->A bit of a rarity for me, a post featuring only our smaller birds which were enjoying the autumn sunshine. The first sighting was of a grey wagtail, a hopelessly mis-named bird since it happens to be brightly coloured and shines out like a beacon against almost any background.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/grey_wagtail_0511122263.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>On the other hand the jauntily named pied wagtail, is indeed predominantly grey and could quite easily pass muster with monochromatic tag. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/pied_wagtail_0511122326.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The pieds are great to watch as they take short, sharp flights after insects. The second shot shows the wagtail with its reward.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/pied_wagtail_0511122368.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>I can understand how this third species got its name&#8230; for the distinctive blue cap, though it could equally be known as the &#39;masked tit&#39; due to its archetypical bandit mask. It&#39;s an old favourite and very common, but cute and in the right light always worth a photo.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/blue_tit_0511122415.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/blue_tit_0511122424.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 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":[980],"tags":[45,815,120],"class_list":["post-2438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","tag-blue-tit","tag-grey-wagtail","tag-pied-wagtail","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438","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=2438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}