{"id":2568,"date":"2013-04-09T23:04:37","date_gmt":"2013-04-09T22:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2568"},"modified":"2013-11-01T22:59:54","modified_gmt":"2013-11-01T22:59:54","slug":"despite-the-drizzle-heron-and-sheep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/despite-the-drizzle-heron-and-sheep\/","title":{"rendered":"Despite the Drizzle&#8230; heron and sheep"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The brief glimpse of springtime has scurried away under a layer of weeping clouds. Drizzle and mist were the order of the day, at least until late afternoon. These were taken early this morning just outside Eastbourne.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/sheep_0904138125.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/heron_0904138099.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The weather had, it&#39;s fair to say, improved slightly by the time of my return journey to Brighton. It was dry, and the sun was making some sort of effort to peep through the cloud. I stopped off to see what was about and was rewarded with several swans and a rather striking heron.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/swan_0904138176.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/heron_0904138233.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/heron_0904138285.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The forecast for the next few days is typically &#39;mixed&#39;, a euphemism which fails to disguise the prospect of rain, dark skies, wind and the taunting prospect of fleeting sunshine. We can but see how things develop, but at least it isn&#39;t quite as cold as it&#39;s been. That&#39;s something I guess.<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":[980,1041,989],"tags":[1179,135,339],"class_list":["post-2568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-sheep-wildlife","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-heron","tag-sheep","tag-swan","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568","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=2568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}