{"id":24851,"date":"2016-03-29T23:37:32","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T22:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/?p=24851"},"modified":"2016-03-29T23:37:32","modified_gmt":"2016-03-29T22:37:32","slug":"easter-owl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/easter-owl\/","title":{"rendered":"Easter Owl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After Good Friday&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/fighting-fulmars-at-rottingdean\/\">fulmars<\/a>, I headed to Sheepcote Valley on Easter Monday in search of the short-eared owls. It took me a while to find them, but I eventually spotted one, and then another. This is a small selection of shots.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_24852\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24852\" style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/short_eared_owl_2803169770.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/short_eared_owl_2803169770.jpg\" alt=\"Short-eared owl ruffling its feathers \" width=\"750\" height=\"626\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24852\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/short_eared_owl_2803169770.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/short_eared_owl_2803169770-300x250.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24852\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Short-eared owl ruffling its feathers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_24853\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24853\" style=\"width: 850px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/short_eared_owl_2803169938.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/short_eared_owl_2803169938.jpg\" alt=\"Short-eared owl in flight\" width=\"850\" height=\"587\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/short_eared_owl_2803169938.jpg 850w, https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/short_eared_owl_2803169938-300x207.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24853\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Short-eared owl in flight<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_24855\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24855\" style=\"width: 658px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/short_eared_owl_2803169928-1.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/short_eared_owl_2803169928-1.jpg\" alt=\"Coming straight  at you!\" width=\"658\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24855\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/short_eared_owl_2803169928-1.jpg 658w, https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/short_eared_owl_2803169928-1-300x274.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 658px) 100vw, 658px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24855\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Coming straight  at you!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Now three similar shots but with different colour variants. Seriously, I work hard to vary the background colour by changing my position (it&#8217;s difficult to get an owl to pose).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_24856\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24856\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/short_eared_owl_2803169999_5.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/short_eared_owl_2803169999_5.jpg\" alt=\"Short-eared owl  perching at Sheepcote Valley, Brighton\" width=\"600\" height=\"655\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24856\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/short_eared_owl_2803169999_5.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/short_eared_owl_2803169999_5-275x300.jpg 275w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24856\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Short-eared owl  perching at Sheepcote Valley, Brighton<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_24858\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24858\" style=\"width: 850px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/short_eared_owl_2803169999_46.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/short_eared_owl_2803169999_46.jpg\" alt=\"Short-eared owl perching at Sheepcote Valley, Brighton\" width=\"850\" height=\"566\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24858\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/short_eared_owl_2803169999_46.jpg 850w, https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/short_eared_owl_2803169999_46-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24858\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Short-eared owl perching at Sheepcote Valley, Brighton<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_24857\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24857\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/short_eared_owl_2803169999_119.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/short_eared_owl_2803169999_119.jpg\" alt=\"Short-eared owl  perching at Sheepcote Valley, Brighton\" width=\"550\" height=\"826\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24857\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/short_eared_owl_2803169999_119.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/short_eared_owl_2803169999_119-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24857\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Short-eared owl  perching at Sheepcote Valley, Brighton<\/figcaption><\/figure>\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>After Good Friday&#8217;s fulmars, I headed to Sheepcote Valley on Easter Monday in search of the short-eared owls. It took me a while to find them, but I eventually spotted one, and then another. This is a small selection of shots. Now three similar shots but with different colour variants. Seriously, I work hard to [&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-24851","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\/24851","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=24851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}