{"id":373,"date":"2009-09-17T16:54:34","date_gmt":"2009-09-17T15:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fifescapes.wordpress.com\/?p=373"},"modified":"2020-11-15T11:30:37","modified_gmt":"2020-11-15T11:30:37","slug":"mute-swan-preening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fifescapes.co.uk\/index.php\/2009\/09\/17\/mute-swan-preening\/","title":{"rendered":"Mute Swan Preening (17 Sep 2009)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fifescapes.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/P9171567_Crop_0973.jpg\" alt=\"Mute Swan Preening\" class=\"wp-image-1936\" width=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fifescapes.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/P9171567_Crop_0973.jpg 973w, https:\/\/fifescapes.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/P9171567_Crop_0973-768x622.jpg 768w, https:\/\/fifescapes.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/P9171567_Crop_0973-508x411.jpg 508w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 973px) 100vw, 973px\" \/><figcaption>Mute Swan Preening<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also taken at Birnie Loch.\u00a0 Judging by the size of the black knob at the base of his bill, this looks like a cob (male) swan to me.  He was busy preening and not concerned about me taking photos of him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This was taken in the late afternoon, but mute swans do have warm colours in their neck feathers &#8211; just not quite was warm as here!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"clearfix wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sal-woo\/5046208303\/\">Flickr Photopage<\/a><\/p>\n<ul id=\"wp-image-\" class=\"exif\"><li class=\"shutter_speed\">Shutter speed:\u00a01\/3200s<\/li><li class=\"aperture\">Aperture:\u00a0&#402;\/5.6<\/li><li class=\"iso\">ISO:\u00a0200<\/li><li class=\"focal_length\">Focal length:\u00a0300mm<\/li><li class=\"created_timestamp\">Taken:\u00a017 September, 2009 15:09<\/li><li class=\"camera\">Camera:\u00a0E-510<\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Also taken at Birnie Loch.\u00a0 Judging by the size of the black knob at the base of his bill, this looks like a cob (male) swan to me. He was busy preening and not concerned about me taking photos of him. This was taken in the late afternoon, but mute swans do have warm colours&hellip;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1936,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[265,37,43,44,252,23],"tags":[71,47,134],"class_list":["post-373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-70-0-300-0mm-f-4-0-5-6","category-animals","category-colour","category-digital-type","category-olympus-e-510","category-scotland","tag-birnie-and-gaddon-lochs","tag-fife","tag-mute-swan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fifescapes.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fifescapes.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fifescapes.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fifescapes.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fifescapes.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/fifescapes.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1937,"href":"https:\/\/fifescapes.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions\/1937"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fifescapes.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fifescapes.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fifescapes.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fifescapes.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}