{"id":968,"date":"2007-10-13T00:10:12","date_gmt":"2007-10-12T23:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/968"},"modified":"2013-11-24T14:57:22","modified_gmt":"2013-11-24T14:57:22","slug":"green-woodpecker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/green-woodpecker\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Woodpecker"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

It was deeply overcast today, the kind of day when I usually leave the long lens at home. For some reason though I decided to take it with me to work. And for once, I had the right lens at the right time.<\/p>\n

I'd gone out at lunchtime, not really expecting to see too much. Maybe some squirrels, crows of course, but not this.<\/p>\n

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

Green Woodpecker<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

It was in an open patch of ground, with plenty of people on the nearby path (none of whom noticed what was just 10s of yards away from them). In order to get the shots I cranked the ISO up, set the aperture to 5.6 and underexposed by a mile. It's the only way to get a fast enough shutter speed. <\/p>\n

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

I'd love to have got closer in (those are quite hefty crops), but the green woodpecker is a notoriously shy bird, and sure enough it took to the wing as I edged closer. It didn't go far, just over to some trees about 100 yards away where I was able to get close enough for just a few more shots.<\/p>\n

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

Doing what it does best<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

A real treat, and all the more so for being entirely unexpected. <\/p>\n

This evening in the garden it was the usual varied assortment of creatures, including an adult newt and frog which are both in the Amphibians<\/a> album, and a woodmouse (more shots in the Wood Mouse Files<\/a>). <\/p>\n

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

Wood mouse eating a peanut<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The fox was back again, and I managed a close-up of his injured foot. It still doesn't tell me very much, and he's still carrying it most of the time. So no better, but thankfully no worse so far as I can tell. <\/p>\n

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

Camera note: Woodpecker shots taken with the EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens, the wood mosue with the Sigma 105mm F2.8 EX DG macro, and the fox with the EF 24-105 F4L IS USM.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[980,4,54],"tags":[1128,1143,115],"class_list":["post-968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-foxes","category-mouse","tag-fox","tag-mouse","tag-woodpecker","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}