{"id":830,"date":"2007-04-29T22:04:21","date_gmt":"2007-04-29T21:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/830"},"modified":"2013-11-26T21:15:30","modified_gmt":"2013-11-26T21:15:30","slug":"one-swallow-doesnt-make-a-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/one-swallow-doesnt-make-a-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"One swallow doesn&#8217;t make a summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->One swallow may not make a summer, but I&#39;m hoping today was an exception. We took some time out on the downs and sure enough overhead were not one, but three, swallows. I only managed a couple of shots (not of all three together), and the results aren&#39;t great. But first sightings of the year are always worth recording.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/barn_swallow_2904070845.jpg' \/><\/span> <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/barn_swallow_2904070848.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\"><i>Edit: this second one is a Swift (see comments. And thanks to Sitting Fox for the correction)<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Despite the heat, the day was strangely humid and by late afternoon the distant haze was strong.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/downs_2904070943.jpg' \/><\/span> <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/downs_2904070951.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>It was a good day for insect spotting. These next photos are in the <a href=\"http:\/\/my.opera.com\/Words\/albums\/show.dml?id=238214\" target=\"_blank\">Butterflies and Bugs<\/a> album.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/greenveined_white_butterfly_2904070911.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17395\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/greenveined_white_butterfly_2904070911-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"greenveined_white_butterfly_2904070911\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-17395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/greenveined_white_butterfly_2904070911-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/greenveined_white_butterfly_2904070911-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/greenveined_white_butterfly_2904070911.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"aligncenter\">Green-veined White butterfly<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/red-damsel_2904070890.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17397\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/red-damsel_2904070890-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"red-damsel_2904070890\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-17397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/red-damsel_2904070890-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/red-damsel_2904070890-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/red-damsel_2904070890.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"aligncenter\">Red damsel fly<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/blue_damsel_2904070886.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17398\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/blue_damsel_2904070886-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"blue_damsel_2904070886\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-17398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/blue_damsel_2904070886-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/blue_damsel_2904070886-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/blue_damsel_2904070886.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"aligncenter\">Blue damsel fly<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oh, and I&#39;m about to reveal the secret of the roof top fox! Keep watching \ud83d\ude09<\/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":[980,992,309,1003],"tags":[107,94,1165],"class_list":["post-830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-butterfly-insects-2","category-damselfly","category-landscape-2","tag-insects","tag-south-downs","tag-swallow","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830","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=830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}