{"id":2957,"date":"2013-08-15T00:06:48","date_gmt":"2013-08-14T23:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/?p=2957"},"modified":"2013-08-15T00:06:48","modified_gmt":"2013-08-14T23:06:48","slug":"re-count-your-chicks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/re-count-your-chicks\/","title":{"rendered":"Re-Count Your Chicks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I posted some photos of a pair of house martin chicks. I went back today, and had a re-count.<\/p>\n

\"House<\/a>
One<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"House<\/a>
Two…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And when the adult arrives back with some juicy insects…<\/p>\n

\"House<\/a>
Three!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Now I’m wondering whether there’s a fourth chick lurking at the back of the nest. They can have up to six young in a clutch, so it’s possible. Hard work for the parents, who can produce two to three clutches per season.<\/p>\n

The other good sighting of the day was much larger. At lunchtime a buzzard came in over the pond, circling for a while until it was roundly chased off by a pair of herring gulls. <\/p>\n

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

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

\"Buzzard\"<\/a><\/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":"

Yesterday I posted some photos of a pair of house martin chicks. I went back today, and had a re-count. And when the adult arrives back with some juicy insects… Now I’m wondering whether there’s a fourth chick lurking at the back of the nest. They can have up to six young in a clutch, […]<\/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],"tags":[179,1159,768],"class_list":["post-2957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","tag-buzzard","tag-falmer","tag-house-martin-chick","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2957","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=2957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}