{"id":2455,"date":"2012-11-23T23:11:33","date_gmt":"2012-11-23T23:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2455"},"modified":"2013-11-02T23:34:08","modified_gmt":"2013-11-02T23:34:08","slug":"two-sides-of-pond-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/two-sides-of-pond-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Sides of Pond Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

After the gales of yesterday, it was remarkably calm today. We even had some blue skies for a while, though mixed inevitably with some grey.
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Down at water level, the pond was like glass.
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That's one side of the pond. The other story of today has a positive ending, but so nearly didn't. <\/p>\n

I noticed some rapid splashing near the island in the centre of the pond. The source was a juvenile herring gull.
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The pattern of movement was odd, so I looked more carefully.
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It's a little tricky to see at this size so I've added a couple of pointers to the shot. The gulls wings were entangled with what seems to be fine fishing line. I've never seen anyone fishing here (though that doesn't mean that no-one does), so I wonder whether the line comes from somewhere else, perhaps already caught around the gull and then snagging on the tree. <\/p>\n

I was on the verge of phoning for help when the gull managed to free itself. A tough young bird that was fortunate, but that's all too often not the outcome.
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Luckily no harm on this occasion, but it's a reminder that our discarded waste can be a real threat to wildlife. \"Nature<\/a><\/span>
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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":[980,989],"tags":[1160,68,220],"class_list":["post-2455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-duck","tag-gull","tag-pond","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