{"id":1738,"date":"2012-06-12T08:15:52","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T08:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/?p=1738"},"modified":"2012-06-24T22:24:19","modified_gmt":"2012-06-24T22:24:19","slug":"project-kingfisher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/?p=1738","title":{"rendered":"Project Kingfisher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The title has a dual purpose today (which is unusual for me), Project Kingfisher is a nature area stretching 11km along the River Cole (in Birmingham).  It&#8217;s name would imply that Kingfishers are here.  Now, I&#8217;ve never seen one &#8211; though a blue flash once on the said river might have been.  So today I&#8217;ve decided to try not only to see one, but photograph it.  <\/p>\n<p>The weather is looking better today, so all I need to do is kit up.   The day hasn&#8217;t started off well, as last nights attempt at charging the 1D MkII battery has result in a rather flat bit of plastic.  So a slight delay to the mornings shoot.   I&#8217;ve still got my 5D MkII, but my preference for fast moving birds is the 1D &#8211; so I&#8217;m having to wait (contemplating why I didn&#8217;t get a couple of clone batteries on Ebay).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The title has a dual purpose today (which is unusual for me), Project Kingfisher is a nature area stretching 11km along the River Cole (in Birmingham). It&#8217;s name would imply that Kingfishers are here. Now, I&#8217;ve never seen one &#8211; though a blue flash once on the said river might have been. So today I&#8217;ve &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/?p=1738\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Project Kingfisher&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,4],"tags":[304],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1738"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1740,"href":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738\/revisions\/1740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}