{"id":2471,"date":"2012-12-10T23:12:22","date_gmt":"2012-12-10T23:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2471"},"modified":"2013-11-02T19:08:33","modified_gmt":"2013-11-02T19:08:33","slug":"a-poor-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/a-poor-decision\/","title":{"rendered":"A Poor Decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

I'll come to the missed shot in a minute, but for now it's a cormorant perched on the local 'No Fishing ' sign. he was one of five cormorants spotted at the pond this morning, so spare a thought for the fish!
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And if five cormorants isn't bad enough, there's always a heron to pick off what they might have missed.
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Those were taken in the morning. At lunchtime I switched to the short lens and took some views of the pond and church. That proved to be a poor decision, though the pond and church are extremely picturesque.
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While I was scouting around the churchyard for interesting angles, I noticed a sparrowhawk overhead. I had the short lens on the camera and started to switch lenses (assuming that the sp'rawk would continue to circle overhead). Hmmm… it didn't. It dropped down from the sky and rested on a gravestone about 15 feet away from me. And I had no lens on the camera. Aaargh! :insane:<\/p>\n

It was gone before I could attach the zoom, but a beautiful moment anyway. And to make up for it, I did manage a shot of a sparrow in a tree. Not quite the same thing, but it's a pretty little bird and no doubt pleased to have escaped the attentions of the raptor.
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Camera note: all bird shots taken with the Canon 7D and EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens. Pond and church taken with the EF17-40mm f\/4L 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":[980,989],"tags":[1156,449,1179,220,264,1154],"class_list":["post-2471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-church","tag-cormorant","tag-heron","tag-pond","tag-sparrow","tag-sparrowhawk","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2471","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=2471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}