{"id":784,"date":"2007-01-20T23:01:18","date_gmt":"2007-01-20T23:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/784"},"modified":"2013-11-27T23:03:05","modified_gmt":"2013-11-27T23:03:05","slug":"waiting-waiting-waiting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/waiting-waiting-waiting\/","title":{"rendered":"Waiting waiting waiting&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->I&#39;ve been waiting all evening for the dog fox to arrive, but so far he&#39;s decided to give us a wide berth. Earlier I was quite hopeful. Clear skies, and barely a breeze. Perfect, I thought. That&#39;s all changed, and over the last hour we&#39;ve had bursts of heavy showers and severe gusts. Not the kind of weather we need.<\/p>\n<p>We did have a false alarm in the early part of the evening. We spotted a fox at the side of the garden pond, rushed to get the treated food; but it turned out to be one of the other foxes. And a shy one at that. It didn&#39;t hang around, scooting to the rear of the garden as soon as it spotted us. Judging from its brush (which was in good shape, bar a slight bend at the tip) it may well have been Kinky, the vixen from last year. And <i>that<\/i> is excellent (if unconfirmed) news. <\/p>\n<p>Much earlier today I saw something that came as a bit of surprise&#8230; a sparrowhawk being chased by a crow. They were some distance away, but for most of the time the crow was doing the chasing. In the one photo I managed, the sparrowhawk is dipping down below the crow just before it decided to turn away into clear sky.<\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/sparrowhawk_2001072203.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Here&#39;s a slightly better shot I grabbed a few minutes later when it came back across the gardens.<\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/sparrowhawk_2001072214_filtered.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>And still no sign of the fox&#8230;<\/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":[1128,1154],"class_list":["post-784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bird-of-prey","category-birds-2","tag-fox","tag-sparrowhawk","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784","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=784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}