{"id":2608,"date":"2013-05-22T00:05:06","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T23:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2608"},"modified":"2013-11-01T19:38:21","modified_gmt":"2013-11-01T18:38:21","slug":"mainly-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/mainly-black\/","title":{"rendered":"Mainly Black"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Very nearly a theme tonight&#8230;. and a very quick post.<\/p>\n<p>First, a black swan seen early this morning at Seven Sisters, outside Eastbourne. There are always mute swans in the area, but this was a surprise sighting. That&#39;s a swallow flying past (the blur).<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/black_swan_2105137429.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>As well as swallows there were large numbers of the perfect flying machine, otherwise known as <i>Apus apus<\/i> or the swift. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/swift_2105137339.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Finally, in terms of the  theme, two crows. Oh, and they&#39;re mobbing a large (female) sparrowhawk. I spotted them as I was leaving work tonight.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/sparrowhawk_2105137445.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>To close, a portrait shot of one of our fox cubs. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/fox_cub_2105137519.jpg' \/><\/span> <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: first three shots taken with the Canon 7D and EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens. Fox cub taken with the EF 100mm f\/2.8L macro 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":[15,990,4,989],"tags":[609,44,1142,1128,1154,1186],"class_list":["post-2608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-behaviour","category-bird-of-prey","category-foxes","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-black-swan","tag-crow","tag-cub","tag-fox","tag-sparrowhawk","tag-swift","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2608","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=2608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}