{"id":975,"date":"2007-10-19T00:10:45","date_gmt":"2007-10-18T23:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/975"},"modified":"2013-11-24T14:01:12","modified_gmt":"2013-11-24T14:01:12","slug":"dragonflies-squirrels-and-a-hint-of-fox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/dragonflies-squirrels-and-a-hint-of-fox\/","title":{"rendered":"Dragonflies, squirrels and a hint of fox"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The dewpond proved a fruitful spot this lunchtime, with several darters clinging to the fence surrounding the pond and one pair in typical mating activity. I&#39;ve added several shots to the <a href=\"http:\/\/my.opera.com\/Words\/albums\/show.dml?id=238214\" target=\"_blank\">Butterflies and Bugs<\/a> album (plus a <a href=\"http:\/\/my.opera.com\/Words\/albums\/showpic.dml?album=238214&amp;picture=5482588\" target=\"_blank\">Painted Lady<\/a>), but this one is probably the pick of the bunch.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/darter_dragonflies_flight_1810072959.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/darter_dragonflies_flight_1810072959.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>No sign of the woodpecker today, but the squirrels were in a foraging frenzy and this one &#8211; not realizing I was in the vicinity &#8211; darted out of the woods into broad sunshine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/squirrel_1810073046.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/squirrel_1810073046.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This fellow is rarely camera shy, and tonight was no exception. He spent about 25 minutes out there with me mid-evening, and for most of that time there was the distinctive rustling of the other young fox on the far side of the fence. I would love her to show her face (I&#39;m assuming it&#39;s a young vixen), but most nights she seems happy to stay out of sight, albeit just a yard or so away.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/fox_cub_1810073099.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><i>Camera note: Dragonflies and squirrel taken with the EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens, and the fox with the Sigma 105mm F2.8 EX DG macro.<\/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":[77,4,50],"tags":[1148,1128,1141],"class_list":["post-975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dragonfly","category-foxes","category-squirrel","tag-dragonfly","tag-fox","tag-squirrel","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975","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=975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}