{"id":26930,"date":"2018-08-29T17:38:27","date_gmt":"2018-08-29T16:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/?p=26930"},"modified":"2018-08-29T17:38:27","modified_gmt":"2018-08-29T16:38:27","slug":"dancing-swallows-and-other-local-wildlife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/dancing-swallows-and-other-local-wildlife\/","title":{"rendered":"Dancing Swallows and other local wildlife"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ll start with the barn swallows. I took these photos yesterday of them swooping high above farmland at Falmer.<\/p>\n

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Swallows flying over Falmer Pond, East Sussex<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Swallows flying over Falmer Pond, East Sussex<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Being Falmer I also kept my eyes open for the local rodents. After a relatively barren period they do seem to be back, though not in quite the numbers of a few years ago.<\/p>\n

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Brown rat at Falmer Pond, East Sussex<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Brown rat peeping out from the undergrowth<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As always there were plenty of gulls and ducks, but less common is the common sandpiper. These birds are very shy and extremely difficult to approach.<\/p>\n

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Common sandpiper at Falmer Pond, East Sussex<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Plus one from today, a splendid white duck (a pond resident), imitating a water lily…<\/p>\n

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Duck imitating Lily<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And just because I can, here’s a portrait of Long Nose, the young male fox in an ultra relaxed frame of mind.<\/p>\n

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Portrait of Long Nose<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Camera note: all photos taken with the Canon 1DX Mark II and EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L IS II USM lens.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ll start with the barn swallows. I took these photos yesterday of them swooping high above farmland at Falmer. Being Falmer I also kept my eyes open for the local rodents. After a relatively barren period they do seem to be back, though not in quite the numbers of a few years ago. As always […]<\/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":[980,4,781,989],"tags":[766,1160,1128,1183,1165],"class_list":["post-26930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-foxes","category-rats","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-common-sandpiper","tag-duck","tag-fox","tag-rat","tag-swallow","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26930","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=26930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}