{"id":2489,"date":"2013-01-06T23:01:41","date_gmt":"2013-01-06T23:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2489"},"modified":"2013-11-02T17:13:37","modified_gmt":"2013-11-02T17:13:37","slug":"just-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/just-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The early hint of sunshine this morning dissipated far too quickly, leaving a grey (and somewhat misty) day. These are a few shots of some of the birds seen in and around the garden.<\/p>\n<p>The first is a little dunnock, which might be described as a somewhat unpretentious bird. Few species are plainer  in look and colour, but these birds have <a href=\"http:\/\/my.opera.com\/Words\/blog\/2012\/04\/19\/dunnock-courtship\" target=\"_blank\">hidden qualities<\/a>.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/dunnock_0601132770.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Magpies are at the other extreme and visually, with their elongated tail feathers, are among our more extravagant garden birds. Noisy too! <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/magpie_0601132777.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>We get plenty of pigeons (woodpigeons and ferals). This is a white feral pigeon, one of several that made a number of passes over the garden. I&#39;m not sure what that strange pink mark is on its wing.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/white_pigeon_0601132873.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>And gulls&#8230; lots of gulls, including a couple of black-headed gulls. This photo is a herring gull, by far the more numerous locally.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/gull_0601132891.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Most of the time all the birds behave in a fairly sedate manner, quietly or noisily going about their own business. Once in a while though they get spooked, and when that happens I scour the skies for the cause. It happened a couple of times today with the local starlings. This group were a little way off but their behaviour was distinctive. If you look in the lower section of the photo you can see why.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/starling_sparrowhawk_0601132828.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>It was too far off for a decent shot, but it was a sparrowhawk.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/sparrowhawk_0601132833.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":[163,68,109,59,1154,34],"class_list":["post-2489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","tag-dunnock","tag-gull","tag-magpie","tag-pigeon","tag-sparrowhawk","tag-starling","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2489","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=2489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}