{"id":1729,"date":"2010-09-21T23:09:18","date_gmt":"2010-09-21T22:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1729"},"modified":"2013-11-10T13:03:46","modified_gmt":"2013-11-10T13:03:46","slug":"a-return-to-summer-and-a-bit-of-a-bird-fest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/a-return-to-summer-and-a-bit-of-a-bird-fest\/","title":{"rendered":"A Return to Summer (and a bit of a bird fest)"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->I don&#39;t know where the sudden burst of warm weather came from, but today was glorious! It started with a typical early autumn mist, with glimpses of sun breaking through. This was the scene at just after 8.00 this morning.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/sheepcote_morning_2109100001.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">Sheepcote Valley<\/span><\/p>\n<p>If you look closely you can see a couple of goldfinches on the teasel in the foreground. They&#39;re easier to see when a group takes to the wing on a short flight between feeding points.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/goldfinch_flight_2109100024.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Or fly straight at you&#8230;<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/goldfinch_flight_2109100122.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Or even stand still in air!<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/goldfinch_2109100157.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>A robin was singing-in the morning&#8230;<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/robin_2109100200.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>And a thrush was joining in&#8230;<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/thrush_2109100180.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>By the afternoon the sun had gained some strength, the breeze had dropped, and the sea at Rottingdean was lake-calm.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/sea_2109100736.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/tern_2109100877.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The sandwich terns were busy feeding. Here an adult delivers a fish to a youngster.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/tern_2109100561.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>A ringed plover looks out to sea&#8230;<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/ringed_plover_2109100681.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>And later, the plovers were finding rich pickings among the pebbles&#8230;<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/ringed_plover_2109100851.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Even the wheatears came down to the coast for the day.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/wheatear_2109100624.jpg' \/><\/span> <br \/><span class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/natureblognetwork.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/natureblognetwork.com\/button.php?u=Words\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" alt=\"Nature Blog Network\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/><i>Camera note: all shots taken with the Canon 40D and EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[980,989],"tags":[33,136],"class_list":["post-1729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-birds","tag-sea","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}