{"id":2604,"date":"2013-05-18T00:05:32","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T23:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2604"},"modified":"2013-11-01T19:52:55","modified_gmt":"2013-11-01T18:52:55","slug":"a-wild-fox-and-other-local-wildlife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/a-wild-fox-and-other-local-wildlife\/","title":{"rendered":"A Wild Fox and other local wildlife"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

After the relative lack of variety in recent days, today turned out to be rather special. It started with the inevitable shots of the young goslings. They're so cute that I can't resist taking pictures of them even though I already have far too many and the 'cute' season is only just beginning.
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Some of the moorhens are nest-sitting so the appearance of some of the ugliest babies<\/a> in nature can't be too long. In the meantime, the adults are taking time out to have their annual jousting competitions. Incidentally, the chicks are a solid month later this year than previously.
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I was planning to head back there at lunchtime, but mid-morning received an email from a colleague who had seen a fox on the edge of campus, out near the playing fields. Fox? Sighting? Yes, that's where I headed, more in hope than anticipation of any success. For about half an hour I couldn't spot anything and was beginning to question whether I had got the right location. Then I looked up onto a grassy slope in the distance and though it was barely visible to the naked eye there was just enough of a disturbance to the green swathes to make me look through the camera.
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At that kind of distance I can't expect much from the shots, but it's a start. I did move in closer once it was out of sight, but that was it for the day. I'll be back there next week if the weather holds.<\/p>\n

The next sequence was grabbed (again at a stupidly long range) as I headed back to work. It's a buzzard being mobbed by a couple of crows.
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About a week ago (I'm being really lazy in not checking exactly when) I mentioned that a herring gull had nested outside a colleagues window. I checked out the location again today, but this time from the outside (from the safety of a rooftop veranda). Here she is, and the location should make for some great opportunities to photograph the chicks when they arrive.
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I'm slipping behind with video clips, but can confirm that last night's footage shows that we still have four young cubs and three adult foxes visiting.
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Camera note: fox, buzzard, moorhen and first gosling shot taken with the Canon 7D and EF 400mm f\/5.6L USM lens. The rest were taken with the EF 200mm f\/2.8L II 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":[990,980,4,989],"tags":[179,1128,340,1158,1172],"class_list":["post-2604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bird-of-prey","category-birds-2","category-foxes","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-buzzard","tag-fox","tag-gosling","tag-herring-gull","tag-moorhen","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t