{"id":439,"date":"2007-04-10T22:04:20","date_gmt":"2007-04-10T21:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/439"},"modified":"2013-11-26T22:22:49","modified_gmt":"2013-11-26T22:22:49","slug":"the-bird-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/the-bird-post\/","title":{"rendered":"The bird post"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->As well as the <a href=\"http:\/\/my.opera.com\/Words\/blog\/2007\/04\/10\/the-bug-post-macro-photography\" target=\"_blank\">bugs<\/a>, the day was somewhat interesting on the bird front.<\/p>\n<p>I&#39;ll start with a &#39;first sighting&#39; (for me that is). Among the usual dunnocks, sparrows and greenfinches I saw this delicate little bird flitting in and out of the trees. I thought it was a chiffchaff, but on checking my field guide it is &#8211; I&#39;m fairly sure &#8211; a willow warbler. There are more shots in the <a href=\"http:\/\/my.opera.com\/Words\/albums\/show.dml?id=234686\" target=\"_blank\">April Birds<\/a> gallery.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/willow_warbler_1004078912.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/willow_warbler_1004078912.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Willow Warbler<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I also caught these shots of a pigeon showing off. They&#39;re not in the gallery, but they amused me when I saw them.<\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/pigeon_hop_1004078926.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">The Pigeon Hop pt 1<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/pigeon_hop_1004078928.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">The Pigeon Hop pt 2<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Then there are the raptors. No buzzard today, but I did see a kestrel fly overhead (the first one I&#39;ve seen in this location). It was being semi-<a href=\"http:\/\/my.opera.com\/Words\/albums\/showpic.dml?album=234686&amp;picture=3561902\" target=\"_blank\">mobbed by a gull<\/a> at the time. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/kestrel_1004078883.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/kestrel_1004078883.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Kestrel<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was obviously the day for flight combat. As well as the kestrel, a sparrowhawk wandered into the vicinity, only to be mobbed by jackdaws.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/sparrowhawk_jackdaw_1004078864.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/sparrowhawk_jackdaw_1004078864.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Jackdaw and sparrowhawk<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are more of the jackdaw\/sparrowhawk sequence in the <a href=\"http:\/\/my.opera.com\/Words\/albums\/show.dml?id=234686\" target=\"_blank\">April Birds<\/a> gallery, but among the shots was probably <i>the<\/i> shot, the one you are always after and just hope one day to get. I close with this cracker of the sparrowhawk in flight.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/sparrowhawk_best_1004078858.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/sparrowhawk_best_1004078858.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Sparrowhawk<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","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":[990,980],"tags":[33,1152,59,1154,243],"class_list":["post-439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bird-of-prey","category-birds-2","tag-birds","tag-kestrel","tag-pigeon","tag-sparrowhawk","tag-willow-warbler","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439","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=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}