{"id":2647,"date":"2013-07-05T23:07:08","date_gmt":"2013-07-05T22:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2647"},"modified":"2013-10-31T21:42:20","modified_gmt":"2013-10-31T20:42:20","slug":"a-very-muddy-woodpecker-and-other-local-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/a-very-muddy-woodpecker-and-other-local-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"A Very Muddy Woodpecker and other local friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

I'll start with what is undoubtedly the pick of today's shots, if only for the general messiness of it. I've seen green woodpeckers in trees, on grass, in flight, but never enjoying a mud bath!
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Of course it may have been digging for insects, I can’t be sure about that. Swallows on the other hand have only one thing on their mind when they swoop low over water like this. They are always feeding.
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Talking of food, the young lesser black-backed gulls were the recipients of a mini feast today.
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The herring gull chicks are quite a bit bigger than those three, and getting nearer to putting their wings to use. This is one of several scattered around the various roof tops at work.
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The young foxes are also doing well. This is Red, closely tailed by Pretty, earlier this evening.
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And here's Pretty, living up to her name.
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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":[1],"tags":[1177,1142,1128,222,1158,847,1165],"class_list":["post-2647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-chick","tag-cub","tag-fox","tag-green-woodpecker","tag-herring-gull","tag-lesser-black-backed-gull","tag-swallow","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