{"id":2793,"date":"2013-07-31T23:44:05","date_gmt":"2013-07-31T22:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/?p=2793"},"modified":"2013-08-05T00:41:26","modified_gmt":"2013-08-04T23:41:26","slug":"whats-that-little-brown-furry-animal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/whats-that-little-brown-furry-animal\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s that little brown furry animal?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The title is a direct quote from a visitor to Falmer Pond today. They’d been watching the gulls and ducks, and presumably watching me watching a little brown furry animal. Hence the question. My answer, of course, was: ‘It’s a rat’. <\/p>\n

I first spotted it running down on to the road from beneath a tree.
\n\"Brown<\/a><\/p>\n

It crossed the road…
\n\"Rats\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Rats\"<\/a><\/p>\n

For a little while it hid behind the pond-side scrub, but then I spotted it again as it ran down the bank and edged in and out of cover as it made its way along the edge of the pond.
\n\"Rats\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Rats\"<\/a><\/p>\n

It eventually disappeared into thick undergrowth at the north end of the pond. <\/p>\n

I’ve seen very few rats at the pond this year, but in previous years they have been quite bold. A rather cute selection (well I think it’s cute) is over in my ‘rat gallery<\/a>‘, including swimming and jumping shots.<\/p>\n

Camera note: all shots taken with the Canon 7D and EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The title is a direct quote from a visitor to Falmer Pond today. They’d been watching the gulls and ducks, and presumably watching me watching a little brown furry animal. Hence the question. My answer, of course, was: ‘It’s a rat’. I first spotted it running down on to the road from beneath a tree. […]<\/p>\n","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":[3],"tags":[1183],"class_list":["post-2793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wildlife","tag-rat","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