{"id":471,"date":"2009-11-03T09:55:32","date_gmt":"2009-11-03T09:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=471"},"modified":"2009-11-01T17:11:38","modified_gmt":"2009-11-01T17:11:38","slug":"wwt-london-wetlands-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/?p=471","title":{"rendered":"WWT London Wetlands Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/tn_wwt-london-wetlands-centre-4971.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-472\" title=\"Mute Swans 'necking'\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/tn_wwt-london-wetlands-centre-4971.jpg\" alt=\"Mute Swans 'necking'\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/tn_wwt-london-wetlands-centre-4971.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/tn_wwt-london-wetlands-centre-4971-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/tn_wwt-london-wetlands-centre-4971-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once again another day on my road trip was blessed with sunshine. After spending the early morning in Richmond Park, I moved onto the WWT London Wetlands Centre down the road in Barnes. To be honest I much prefer cloudy days for my photography now because it gives me greater flexibility in subjects and images.<\/p>\n<p>In the above image the two swans are displaying &#8216;necking&#8217;, which is normally part of the bonding process in a mating pair. It seem that this was either a new pair or just confused as it is quite a while before the next mating season. The male? was quite busy protecting one of the lagoons from any other Mute swans and kept me entertained for quite a while scooting here an there, chasing off interlopers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/tn_wwt-london-wetlands-centre-4965.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-473\" title=\"Male Mute Swan\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/tn_wwt-london-wetlands-centre-4965.jpg\" alt=\"Male Mute Swan\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/tn_wwt-london-wetlands-centre-4965.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/tn_wwt-london-wetlands-centre-4965-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/tn_wwt-london-wetlands-centre-4965-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When he wasn&#8217;t chasing other swans he was bonding with his partner. I nearly got the classic heart shaped space between the swans in the image below. I just needed the one on the left to turn more towards me. It never did!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/tn_wwt-london-wetlands-centre-4860.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-474\" title=\"Pair of mute swans\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/tn_wwt-london-wetlands-centre-4860.jpg\" alt=\"Pair of mute swans\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/tn_wwt-london-wetlands-centre-4860.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/tn_wwt-london-wetlands-centre-4860-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/tn_wwt-london-wetlands-centre-4860-400x265.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again another day on my road trip was blessed with sunshine. After spending the early morning in Richmond Park, I moved onto the WWT London Wetlands Centre down the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=471"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":476,"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions\/476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}