{"id":2531,"date":"2013-02-22T23:02:14","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T23:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2531"},"modified":"2013-11-02T15:27:05","modified_gmt":"2013-11-02T15:27:05","slug":"bird-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/bird-food\/","title":{"rendered":"Bird Food"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->A couple of sequences today, the first taken at around 8.00am this morning. The black-headed gulls were flocking around the edge of the pond as one of the regulars there was throwing bread out to them. I stayed back a little way and used the sky as a background.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/black_headed_gulls_2202132991.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/black_headed_gulls_2202133016.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/black_headed_gulls_2202132938.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Sequence number two was taken at lunchtime. It was bitterly cold, with a distinct wind-chill. I hadn&#39;t planned this, but having spotted a kestrel out by local farmland I ended up following it around the edge of the field as it hunted for lunch. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/kestrel_2202133174.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/kestrel_2202133232.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/kestrel_2202133101.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>It had just caught a vole in that last shot and took off with it. Unusually it was mouth-carrying.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/kestrel_2202133137.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>There&#39;s snow in the air tonight, though with luck it won&#39;t be more than a light dusting. It&#39;s going to be a cold weekend though. :psmurf:<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":[990,980,989],"tags":[378,1152],"class_list":["post-2531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bird-of-prey","category-birds-2","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-black-headed-gull","tag-kestrel","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2531","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=2531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}