{"id":2541,"date":"2013-03-06T23:03:54","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T23:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2541"},"modified":"2013-11-02T15:10:03","modified_gmt":"2013-11-02T15:10:03","slug":"ive-been-working-like-a-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/ive-been-working-like-a-dog\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ve Been Working Like a Dog"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The sun has disappeared behind a thin layer of cloud again, so not the beautiful weather of the past few days, but early this morning I came across a sheepdog herding sheep. It&#39;s a scene that is somehow ingrained in me (and I&#39;m sure many others) but I think this is probably the first time I&#39;ve actually seen it in the flesh. And yes, that is a swan you can see.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/sheepdog_0603134562.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/sheepdog_0603134563.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/sheepdog_0603134577.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The rest of the day offered little, so instead here are a few shots from the garden. The first was taken last night&#8230; the rest this evening. Plus a video treat from the trail camera.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/newt_0603134504.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">Newt clambering out of the pond<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/frogs_0603134634.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">Amorous frogs<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/badger_0603134631.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">Badger lurking in the undergrowth<\/span><\/p>\n<p>And still no photos of foxes&#8230; which is all the more irksome given just how at home they are in the garden. Witness this sequence from shortly after 3.00am this morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"responsive-video-wrap clr\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Gathering of Foxes\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ad9zj2kVOsk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><i>Camera note: sheepdog shots taken with the Canon 7D and EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens. Badger, newt and frogs taken with the EF 100mm f\/2.8L macro IS USM 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":[1025,994,1043,86,1026,1004],"tags":[160,1128,1149,114,135,945],"class_list":["post-2541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amphibians-2","category-badger-wildlife","category-farming-2","category-frog","category-newt-amphibians-2","category-south-downs-national-park-landscape-2","tag-badger-2","tag-fox","tag-frog","tag-newt","tag-sheep","tag-sheepdog","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2541","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=2541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}