{"id":3039,"date":"2013-08-23T00:04:06","date_gmt":"2013-08-22T23:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/?p=3039"},"modified":"2013-08-23T00:04:06","modified_gmt":"2013-08-22T23:04:06","slug":"three-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/three-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Birds"},"content":{"rendered":"

The morning was a literal washout, with heavy rain putting pay to any thought of getting out with the camera. It brightened up a little later on, but the day was a quiet one with little to draw the camera.<\/p>\n

The ducks were at the pond (as they would be). This little white duck is a firm favourite, but tends to stay a little away from people.<\/p>\n

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

rather more sociable is this Muscovy. A relative newcomer to the pond, I’m certain it is a domestic duck. Whenever it sees people it wanders up to them ‘wagging’ its tail feathers! Here he is peering into the camera.<\/p>\n

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

I’d all but given up hope on finding anything unusual to photograph and was scanning the darker fringes of the pond when I spotted a rare visitor. It was a grey wagtail, which locally at least, are much less common a sighting than the very bold and numerous pied wagtails. The grey is rather more colourful than its name suggests and sport a bright yellow rump and tail. <\/p>\n

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

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

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

I’m hoping for some better weather as we head into another Bank Holiday. There’s a chance of heavy rain on Saturday, but beyond that the forecast looks good and we may be in for another mini heatwave (or at least a second dose of summer). <\/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 morning was a literal washout, with heavy rain putting pay to any thought of getting out with the camera. It brightened up a little later on, but the day was a quiet one with little to draw the camera. The ducks were at the pond (as they would be). This little white duck is […]<\/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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wildlife","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