{"id":5134,"date":"2012-03-05T09:20:44","date_gmt":"2012-03-05T08:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?p=5134"},"modified":"2019-12-22T22:12:43","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T09:12:43","slug":"mute-swans-in-the-mist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/mute-swans-in-the-mist\/","title":{"rendered":"Mute Swans in the Mist"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

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Pair of Mute Swans (Cygnus olor) beginning their mating rituals.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

On Friday morning the skies were blue and the day started with a brilliant sunrise in our tiny alpine village.<\/p>\n

Although the snow had not completely melted there were signs and sounds of spring all around.<\/p>\n

I decided to go down to the Rhine Delta just across the border in Austria. Unfortunately on the way down the hill I realised that the lake was shrouded in what’s locally known as “hochnebel” or plain old fog.<\/p>\n

A blanket of approx 20 metres of thick fog completely covered the delta but the sun was trying to come through.<\/p>\n

Perfect conditions for capturing some ethereal style images.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Group of 10 Tufted Duck (Aythya fuligula) performing their mating rituals<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

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Sudenly out of the mist a loud flapping sound descended and I just had time to get one grab shot at a distance of approx 10 metres.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

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White Wagtail (Motacilla alba) feeding on the edge of the Rhine Dam<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

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The Great Crested Grebe (Podiceps cristatus) is a member of the grebe family of water birds.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

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Pair of European roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) feeding in the misty, spring morning<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Friday morning the skies were blue and the day started with a brilliant sunrise in our tiny alpine village. Although the snow had not completely melted there were signs and sounds of spring all around. I decided to go down to the Rhine Delta just across the border in Austria. Unfortunately on the way […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":2192011,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Mute-Swan_04.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","ngg_tag-4821","ngg_tag-afrique-du-sud","ngg_tag-cap-occidental","ngg_tag-flamant-nain","ngg_tag-lesser-flamingo-2","ngg_tag-oiseau","ngg_tag-phoenicopterus-minor","ngg_tag-south-africa-2","ngg_tag-western-cape"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2192011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}