{"id":2484,"date":"2016-05-22T19:52:20","date_gmt":"2016-05-22T18:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/?p=2484"},"modified":"2016-05-23T07:58:35","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T06:58:35","slug":"buzzard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/?p=2484","title":{"rendered":"Buzzard"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"shariff\" data-title=\"Buzzard\" data-info-url=\"\" data-backend-url=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/plugins\/shariff-sharing\/backend\/index.php\" data-temp=\"\/tmp\" data-ttl=\"60\" data-service=\"gft\" data-services='[\"googleplus\",\"facebook\",\"twitter\",\"info\"]' data-image=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/2016-05-22-19.16.49-200x300.jpg\" data-url=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/?p=2484\" data-lang=\"en\" data-theme=\"color\" data-orientation=\"horizontal\"><\/div><p>I occasionally see a buzzard in the Hatton field when I am out walking the dogs.\u00a0 I have never managed to get a photograph of it.\u00a0 He (or is it she?) usually takes off with a casual stretch of the wings before I can get close enough.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight he was sitting on a fence post quite close to the path, but, needless to say, I did not have a camera with me.\u00a0 A mobile phone is just not up to the task of moving wildlife photography.\u00a0 But I tried.\u00a0 It seems to take me so long to get the\u00a0phone out, switched on, find the camera app, zoom in the lens and then try to find a moving bird\u00a0 while the camera tries to focus and eventually condescends to take a picture.<\/p>\n<p>I got two pictures, not great, but wonderful when I consider the equipment I was using.\u00a0\u00a0 Perhaps some day I will have the right camera round my neck when the buzzard appears again.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/2016-05-22-19.16.49.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2486\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2486 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/2016-05-22-19.16.49-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"2016-05-22 19.16.49\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/2016-05-22-19.16.49-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/2016-05-22-19.16.49-624x937.jpg 624w, http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/2016-05-22-19.16.49.jpg 666w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/2016-05-22-19.16.53.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2487\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2487\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/2016-05-22-19.16.53-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"2016-05-22 19.16.53\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/2016-05-22-19.16.53-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/2016-05-22-19.16.53-624x936.jpg 624w, http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/2016-05-22-19.16.53.jpg 667w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I occasionally see a buzzard in the Hatton field when I am out walking the dogs.\u00a0 I have never managed to get a photograph of it.\u00a0 He (or is it she?) usually takes off with a casual stretch of the wings before I can get close enough. Tonight he was sitting on a fence post&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crudencountry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2484"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2489,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2484\/revisions\/2489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}