{"id":2595,"date":"2013-05-08T23:05:23","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T22:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2595"},"modified":"2013-11-01T22:18:30","modified_gmt":"2013-11-01T21:18:30","slug":"where-did-the-spring-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/where-did-the-spring-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Where did the Spring Go?"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->After two or three days of acceptable spring weather it was back to mist and rain this morning, and promises of near gale force winds tomorrow. The weather somewhat curtailed the opportunity to take many photos, but this is a small selection. I may add a fox cub at the end \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>First up are a few sheep, grazing quietly in the morning mist.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/sheep_0805134190.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Less photogenic (and much less attractive) are the gnats. There are clouds of them everywhere.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/gnats_0805134274.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The best sighting though was a swift. I saw a couple yesterday evening (along with some bats over the garden), but they were beginning to gather in greater numbers today having finally arrived from Africa.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/swift_0805134221.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>As for the foxes, I got plenty more trail cam footage last night. The four young ones are still greedily bothering the vixen. This is just a short clip. <\/p>\n<p class=\"responsive-video-wrap clr\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"I Won&#039;t Let Go\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0j19bptDrsI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And a couple of more relaxed photos&#8230;<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/fox_cub_0705134135.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/fox_cub_0705134167.jpg' \/><\/span> <br \/><i>Camera note: all daytime shots taken with the Canon 7D and EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens. Foxes taken 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":[980,4,991,1041],"tags":[1142,1128,869,135,1186],"class_list":["post-2595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-foxes","category-insects-2","category-sheep-wildlife","tag-cub","tag-fox","tag-gnats","tag-sheep","tag-swift","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2595","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=2595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}