{"id":2515,"date":"2013-02-03T22:02:04","date_gmt":"2013-02-03T22:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2515"},"modified":"2013-11-02T15:55:06","modified_gmt":"2013-11-02T15:55:06","slug":"weekend-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/weekend-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The weather is pretty undecided at the moment which gives me an opportunity to catch up with some recent shots taken at Pulborough Brooks, the RSPB nature reserve in West Sussex.<\/p>\n<p>The main part of the reserve is a series of low wetland areas which are visited by large numbers of wading birds and water fowl. The distances from the hides are significant and to get the best out of Pulborough you need a spotting scope. A 400mm camera lens doesn&#39;t really cut it for getting up close to the main event. That said it does get you close to manage (with heavy cropping) some smaller group shots, such as these dabbling teal.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/teal_0202138583.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The most numerous of the various flocks were the wigeon. The first shots are typical of their flocking behaviour.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/wigeon_0202138553.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/wigeon_0202138639.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>A few did venture a little closer to the hide which offers a slightly better glimpse of what they actually look like.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/wigeon_0202138558.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>If that&#39;s the main event, why people as well as birds flock there, the supporting cast is pretty good as well. I was pleased to see a song thrush in the farmland around the site. These are increasingly less common, and there is genuine concern about their declining numbers.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/song_thrush_0202138905.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>No such worries with this little robin. Indeed I was surprised it wasn&#39;t carrying a little &#39;seed bucket&#39; for donations. We spotted it on one of the paths happily posing for a photographer. We waited until they were finished and then watched as it hopped around and then settled in a new position so that I could take some pictures. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/robin_0202138874.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The pick of the visit though were the fallow deer. We literally almost stumbled upon them resting just over the brow of a hill. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/fallow_deer_0202138740.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/fallow_deer_0202138796.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/fallow_deer_0202138824.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>One final shot, back at the feeders by the visitor centre which is always a magnet for the many small birds. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/blue_tit_0202138972.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":[980,440,989],"tags":[45,837,78,212,689,697],"class_list":["post-2515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-deer","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-blue-tit","tag-fallow-deer","tag-robin","tag-song-thrush","tag-teal","tag-wigeon","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2515","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=2515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}