{"id":24707,"date":"2016-02-25T23:33:05","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T23:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/?p=24707"},"modified":"2016-02-25T23:33:05","modified_gmt":"2016-02-25T23:33:05","slug":"another-owl-encounter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/another-owl-encounter\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Owl Encounter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I headed down to Sheepcote Valley early this morning. The light wasn&#8217;t perfect and I thought my luck was out (again), until I spotted two gulls harassing &#8216;something&#8217; in the distance. It was an owl. By the time I got close the gulls had long gone. The short-eared owl&#8217;s hunting had been cut short and it was resting quietly on a small tree.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_24708\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24708\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/short_eared_owl_2502165169.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/short_eared_owl_2502165169.jpg\" alt=\"Short Eared Owl at Sheepcote Valley, Brighton, East Sussex\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24708\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/short_eared_owl_2502165169.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/short_eared_owl_2502165169-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24708\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Short Eared Owl at Sheepcote Valley, Brighton, East Sussex<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_24711\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24711\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/short_eared_owl_2502165180b.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/short_eared_owl_2502165180b.jpg\" alt=\"Short Eared Owl at Sheepcote Valley, Brighton, East Sussex\" width=\"700\" height=\"700\" class=\"size-large wp-image-24711\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/short_eared_owl_2502165180b.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/short_eared_owl_2502165180b-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/short_eared_owl_2502165180b-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24711\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Short Eared Owl at Sheepcote Valley, Brighton, East Sussex<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_24712\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24712\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/short_eared_owl_2502165270b.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/short_eared_owl_2502165270b.jpg\" alt=\"Short Eared Owl at Sheepcote Valley, Brighton, East Sussex\" width=\"700\" height=\"700\" class=\"size-large wp-image-24712\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/short_eared_owl_2502165270b.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/short_eared_owl_2502165270b-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/short_eared_owl_2502165270b-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24712\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Short Eared Owl at Sheepcote Valley, Brighton, East Sussex<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I would have loved to stay longer and watched it return to its hunt, but I had very little time and needed to get into work. I&#8217;ll keep trying though!<\/p>\n<p><em>Camera note: all photos taken with the Canon 7D  Mark II and EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L IS II USM  lens.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I headed down to Sheepcote Valley early this morning. The light wasn&#8217;t perfect and I thought my luck was out (again), until I spotted two gulls harassing &#8216;something&#8217; in the distance. It was an owl. By the time I got close the gulls had long gone. The short-eared owl&#8217;s hunting had been cut short and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,1221],"tags":[850],"class_list":["post-24707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bird-of-prey","category-owl","tag-short-eared-owl","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24707","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=24707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}