{"id":26775,"date":"2018-06-20T23:08:02","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T22:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/?p=26775"},"modified":"2018-06-20T23:08:02","modified_gmt":"2018-06-20T22:08:02","slug":"fledglings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/fledglings\/","title":{"rendered":"Fledglings"},"content":{"rendered":"

I spent the afternoon today at Woods Mill. The young kestrels are nearly ready to fledge and can now be seen at the front of the nest box. The adults are still very busy feeding them and guarding them from other species. <\/p>\n

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You can just see four of the six chicks in this photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Kestrel chicks at Woods Mill<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Corvid attempting to raid a kestrel nest box<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Those were all taken from some ridiculous distance away, but I was able to get a little closer to a young robin. It was sunning itself and kept hopping right up to the camera.<\/p>\n

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Robin fledgling ‘sunbathing’<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Robin fledgling at Woods Mill<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Robin fledgling at Woods Mill<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Plus a quick fox photo from last night. Pretty has taken a shine to rooftops!<\/p>\n

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Fox on a roof<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Camera note: First photo taken with the EF 500mm f\/4 IS II USM lens + 2x extender and the third with the 500mm lens (no extender). All other bird photos taken with the Canon 1DX Mark II and EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L IS II USM lens. The fox photo was taken with the EF 100mm f\/2.8L macro IS USM lens.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I spent the afternoon today at Woods Mill. The young kestrels are nearly ready to fledge and can now be seen at the front of the nest box. The adults are still very busy feeding them and guarding them from other species. Those were all taken from some ridiculous distance away, but I was able […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,980,1219],"tags":[1152,548,78],"class_list":["post-26775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bird-of-prey","category-birds-2","category-kestrel","tag-kestrel","tag-kestrel-chicks","tag-robin","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26775","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=26775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}