{"id":2556,"date":"2013-03-24T23:03:45","date_gmt":"2013-03-24T23:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2556"},"modified":"2013-11-02T11:31:06","modified_gmt":"2013-11-02T11:31:06","slug":"when-march-meant-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/when-march-meant-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"When March Meant Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The continuing freezing weather and unrelenting gloom has kept the camera wrapped up all weekend. Nothing yesterday, nothing today. That made me think: What were things like 12 months ago?<\/p>\n<p>Well, a year ago we were in the middle of an unusually mild March, with blue skies in the day&#8230;<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/0gsw_2303125340.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Golden colours in the late afternoon&#8230;<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/0fox_shutterbug_2303125422.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>And perfect sunsets&#8230;<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/0sunset_2403125727.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Roll back another year to 2011 and things were not much different.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/0sparrowhawk_2303119999_80.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/falmer_2403110192.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>March 2013 is lining up to be the coldest March in 50 years or so. Biting winds (well, wind is expected March), grey skies, hints of snow even this far south (we had a few flakes last night) and the risk of more later in the week. <\/p>\n<p>It&#39;s not usually as bad as this, and just to convince myself that it really was better in the past I&#39;ve checked the blog entries for the same dates going back over the past 4 years. <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/my.opera.com\/Words\/blog\/2012\/03\/23\/greater-spotted-woodpecker-and-a-visiting-fox\" target=\"_blank\">23 March 2012 blog post<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/my.opera.com\/Words\/blog\/small-is-beautiful\" target=\"_blank\">24 March 2011 blog post<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/my.opera.com\/Words\/blog\/2010\/03\/23\/the-bold-vixen-at-the-pond\" target=\"_blank\">23 March 2010 blog post<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/my.opera.com\/Words\/blog\/2009\/03\/24\/foxes-in-the-field\" target=\"_blank\">24 March 2009 blog post<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I really would like some sunshine! Please. Just a hint would do for now.<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><\/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":[990,980,4,1022],"tags":[1128,258,1139,153,115],"class_list":["post-2556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bird-of-prey","category-birds-2","category-foxes","category-sunset-landscape-2","tag-fox","tag-spring","tag-sunset","tag-weather","tag-woodpecker","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2556","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=2556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}