{"id":751,"date":"2006-11-20T00:11:20","date_gmt":"2006-11-20T00:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/751"},"modified":"2013-11-30T18:14:05","modified_gmt":"2013-11-30T18:14:05","slug":"another-fruitless-wait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/another-fruitless-wait\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking up is great, but looking down can sometimes be just as surprising"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The terrible weather has put paid to the old fox showing up tonight. He absolutely hates high winds, and it&#39;s been blowing a gale out there most of the evening. Even the youngster who did show up only stayed for a minute or so. He was on constant alert, and very jumpy at every sound. It seems to me that the high winds play havoc with fox&#39;s hearing, making it difficult for them to keep a check on their surroundings. That makes them incredibly skittish. Note how his ears are held back.<\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/cub_191106004.jpg' \/><\/span> <br \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Young fox on alert<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"aligncenter\">&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;   &gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This morning, in contrast, we had beautiful sunshine and a mass of classic cotton wool clouds overhead.<\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/garden_191106018.jpg' \/><\/span> <br \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Cumulus nimbus<\/span><\/p>\n<p>But the light was great, and I spotted a visiting Great Tit which was doing its level best to stay hidden in the beech trees. I ended up switching my camera to manual mode and using a higher F-stop to get some depth of focus to cut through the tangle of twigs.<\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/greattit_191106004.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/greattit_191106005.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Plus a couple of overhead flyers&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/gull_191106008.jpg' \/><\/span> <br \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">One of the ubiquitous Herring Gulls that live round these parts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/plane_191106002.jpg' \/><\/span> <br \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Equally frequently, light aircraft fly overhead.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>And then this afternoon, on my way back from the local rubbish dump (depositing green waste for recycling) where I got soaked in a sudden downpour, I stopped to capture a rainbow ;).<\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/rainbow_191106%20038.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/downs_191106042.jpg' \/><\/span> <br \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Just a couple of minutes after the previous shot the sun re-emerged.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>For all the looking up, I do occasionally look down, and this evening I noticed something under a small drain cover in the garden. The drain used to lead to a soak-away (now disused) and it tends to silt up quite heavily after rain. I&#39;d cleared it out yesterday so I guess this chap must have been lurking deeper down and out of reach. <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/newt_191106003.jpg' \/><\/span> <br \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Newt in a drain.<\/span><\/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":[980,4,1026,1,1042],"tags":[33,113,1128,57,68,114,112],"class_list":["post-751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-foxes","category-newt-amphibians-2","category-uncategorized","category-weather-2","tag-birds","tag-clouds","tag-fox","tag-great-tit","tag-gull","tag-newt","tag-plane","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751","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=751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}