{"id":2512,"date":"2013-01-30T23:01:14","date_gmt":"2013-01-30T23:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2512"},"modified":"2013-11-02T15:59:01","modified_gmt":"2013-11-02T15:59:01","slug":"pretty-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/pretty-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"Pretty Birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Despite their best efforts (clambering on No Fishing signs, sweeping low across the water) I am not going to include the cormorants in tonight&#39;s post. The fame is going to their head and seeing a trio of them at the pond today is just not enough to impress me. Instead a few shots of two much smaller birds that were enjoying the unexpected sunshine.<\/p>\n<p>First two images of a pied wagtail, which definitely warrants the description &#39;pretty&#39;. They are also bold and will wander up to within a few feet of the camera.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/pwt_3001137959.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/pwt_3001137960.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Those were taken nice and close. Trickier by some distance was a female great spotted woodpecker. I &#39;spotted&#39; her flying into one of the trees near the edge of the pond and eventually located her hiding among the branches. It looks like a fairly clear view in this photo, but believe me she was far from obvious and there was only about one angle which offered a view. Woodpeckers are notoriously shy.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/gsw_3001137965.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>She didn&#39;t stay there long. The next shots show her attempt at a quick getaway.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/gsw_3001137972.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/gsw_3001137974.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/gsw_3001137975.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>She didn&#39;t go far, but she had found a perch which provided a good deal more cover, but which is entirely typical of woodpeckers. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/gsw_3001137977.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":[198,120],"class_list":["post-2512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","tag-great-spotted-woodpecker","tag-pied-wagtail","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2512","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=2512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}