{"id":2459,"date":"2012-11-28T22:11:22","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T22:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2459"},"modified":"2013-11-02T23:18:39","modified_gmt":"2013-11-02T23:18:39","slug":"one-legged-redshank-and-other-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/one-legged-redshank-and-other-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"One-Legged Redshank and other birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

It was another fine morning, though this time the decent weather stayed around for most of the day. I'd had an early start and took these shots while the sun was still low. It's a redshank, most easily identified by it's bright orange\/red legs, except this one is a one-legged example. I've no idea how it lost its leg, but it was managing well enough. And no, the other leg wasn't tucked up underneath it.
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There were plenty of other birds to see as well. Some cormorants were relaxing in the distance (no shots of them today), and the Canada geese were putting on a display of formation flying, which is always well worth pausing to watch.
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Another species that is good at formation flight is the starling. This doesn't count as a classic 'murmuration' shot, but it was the best I could manage with just a few starlings who weren't bothering to fly more than a handful of yards from one feeding spot to the next.
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The starlings were definitely at the small end of the scale. In no particular order I also saw…<\/p>\n

A swan:
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A heron:
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And a little egret:
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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":[745,1179,702,607,34,339],"class_list":["post-2459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-canada-geese","tag-heron","tag-little-egret","tag-redshank","tag-starling","tag-swan","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