{"id":2476,"date":"2012-12-17T23:12:58","date_gmt":"2012-12-17T23:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2476"},"modified":"2013-11-02T19:01:38","modified_gmt":"2013-11-02T19:01:38","slug":"a-normal-day-at-the-pond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/a-normal-day-at-the-pond\/","title":{"rendered":"A Normal Day at the Pond"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

Today was one of those quietly good days. There was nothing exceptional about it, but the weather was good, and the local bird life was putting on a good display.<\/p>\n

It started early, before the sun had risen above the Downs, with a lively little wren. it was hopping in and out of the undergrowth, but paused long enough for a quick shot.
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There were two cormorants on the pond, one of them happily risking the wrath of the local council by perching mischievously on the 'No Fishing' sign. As if that's going to stop a cormorant \ud83d\ude00
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Later on it decided to rest up and dry off in the shelter of the weeping willow.
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The pigeons were settled out in the fields, along with a lone fieldfare. This is my first sight of one this winter. I was surprised to see it on its own as they usually travel in small flocks.
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The last shot today was taken as I headed back to work this afternoon. I'd spotted the gulls in something of a gullish frenzy, and sure enough the cause of their concern soon made itself apparent. A buzzard was flying in relatively low over the buildings.
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No recent fox photos, although there has been plenty of activity with several foxes romping in the garden late last night. The badgers are less frequent now, though the trail cam has picked up the very occasional sighting. I'm already looking forward to spring, when things will liven up once again.
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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],"tags":[179,449,512,285],"class_list":["post-2476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","tag-buzzard","tag-cormorant","tag-fieldfare","tag-wren","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2476","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=2476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}