{"id":1163,"date":"2008-06-25T23:06:12","date_gmt":"2008-06-25T22:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1163"},"modified":"2013-11-20T20:31:01","modified_gmt":"2013-11-20T20:31:01","slug":"lunchtime-with-the-gulls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/lunchtime-with-the-gulls\/","title":{"rendered":"Lunchtime with the gulls"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

Most busy parents face this dilemma… what to feed hungry mouths. Here's how the gulls manage…<\/p>\n

First you open wide and let the kids see what's on the menu.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Then heave your guts up!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Share a little<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Run away with something for later \ud83d\ude09 <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

With the chick in hot pursuit!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

And then after the meal… it's time for the young one to stretch out.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

There are more recent shots in the Herring Gull Chicks<\/a> album (end of page 2<\/a>, beginning of page 3<\/a>).<\/p>\n

The other chick is fine too, but still stranded on the lower deck. It seems happy enough but is harder to photograph. Here's one from today.<\/p>\n

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Camera note: all shots taken with the EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[989],"tags":[424,68],"class_list":["post-1163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-chicks","tag-gull","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t