{"id":2472,"date":"2012-12-11T23:12:11","date_gmt":"2012-12-11T23:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2472"},"modified":"2013-11-02T19:06:42","modified_gmt":"2013-11-02T19:06:42","slug":"bird-spotting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/bird-spotting\/","title":{"rendered":"Bird Spotting"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The crisp, dry winter days, with bright sunshine and little breeze are still with us. The mornings are frosty, but the conditions are pretty much perfect for the time of year. It won&#39;t last, but I&#39;m enjoying it while I can. <\/p>\n<p>There was nothing very unusual to photograph today, but I think my favourite shots were a series of a blue tit flitting up and down the flint wall of the local church. I&#39;ve only included two shots here, uncropped. It&#39;s your turn to do some bird spotting \ud83d\ude09<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/blue_tit_1112128078.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/blue_tit_1112128080.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The next shot is a little easier. It&#39;s a female chaffinch lurking in a small patch of woodland.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/chaffinch_1112128027.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Easier still, by some distance is this pied wagtail taken in the early morning frost.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/pwt_1112127975.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>And completely unmissable is this one: a white duck crossing the road just as the sun emerges above the Downs. For what it&#39;s worth I think someone should tell the duck that the pond is the other way!<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/white_duck_1112128006.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":[45,162,120,808],"class_list":["post-2472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","tag-blue-tit","tag-chaffinch","tag-pied-wagtail","tag-white-duck","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472","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=2472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}