{"id":2594,"date":"2013-05-07T23:05:48","date_gmt":"2013-05-07T22:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2594"},"modified":"2013-11-01T22:20:14","modified_gmt":"2013-11-01T21:20:14","slug":"busy-house-martins-and-fighting-fox-cubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/busy-house-martins-and-fighting-fox-cubs\/","title":{"rendered":"Busy House Martins and Fighting Fox Cubs"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The slow arrival of house martins in Sussex has picked up over the Bank Holiday, and they were out in force today when I popped over to Falmer Pond. House martins build elaborate nests (a bit like bee hives in shape) from mud which they collect from the edge of the pond. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/house_martins_0705133898.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/house_martins_0705133909.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/house_martins_0705133934.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Back home, the fox cubs are a constant source of entertainment and delight as they skip, fight and play all around the garden. They are still mainly nocturnal, but a pair did show up on the trail cam late this morning so daytime photos are a possibility as they get a little older. These shots were taken tonight as the scrabbled over a handful of peanuts.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/fox_cub_0705134079.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/fox_cub_0705134106.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/fox_cub_0705134108.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/fox_cub_0705134175.jpg' \/><\/span> <br \/><i>Camera note: house martin shots taken with the Canon 7D and EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens. The fox cubs were photographed with the EF 24-105 F4L 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":[15,980,4],"tags":[1142,1128,562],"class_list":["post-2594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-behaviour","category-birds-2","category-foxes","tag-cub","tag-fox","tag-house-martin","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2594","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=2594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}