{"id":2486,"date":"2013-01-04T00:01:58","date_gmt":"2013-01-04T00:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2486"},"modified":"2013-11-02T17:28:17","modified_gmt":"2013-11-02T17:28:17","slug":"tree-tops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/tree-tops\/","title":{"rendered":"Tree Tops"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The day started with heavy mists so these shots are all from later in the day when the sun was beginning to emerge from behind a layer of low cloud. During the 20 minutes or so I had, the light improved quite a bit, but this first shot was taken in the gloom. It&#39;s a pair of mistle thrush, a medium-sized noisy bird with a distinctive rattle-like call.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/mistle_thrush_0301132107.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The pond though, is about cormorants at the moment and as if to show that anything a mere thrush can manage so can they, a few moments later one of the local cormorants headed for the treetops.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/cormorant_0301132177.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/cormorant_0301132302.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/cormorant_0301132330.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>With luck the new trail camera will arrive tomorrow so I&#39;ll be able to catch up with what the foxes are getting up to. In the meantime here&#39;s a shot of Shutterbug taken earlier this evening. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/fox_shutterbug_0301132421.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 daylight shots taken with the Canon 7D and EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens. Fox photographed with the EF 24-105 F4L IS USM <br \/> 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":[980,4,989],"tags":[449,1128,513],"class_list":["post-2486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-foxes","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-cormorant","tag-fox","tag-mistle-thrush","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2486","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=2486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}