{"id":1207,"date":"2008-09-08T01:09:13","date_gmt":"2008-09-08T00:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1207"},"modified":"2013-11-19T22:44:14","modified_gmt":"2013-11-19T22:44:14","slug":"more-of-the-shore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/more-of-the-shore\/","title":{"rendered":"More of the shore"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

Just a very quick post tonight featuring some of the waders seen down by the sea shore.<\/p>\n

The first is from yesterday and is an actual 'first' for me…. a turnstone, seen along the coast at Bexhill-on-Sea.<\/p>\n

Turnstone<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Today produced another first, a ringed plover (at least I think I've got my identification correct). This time, at Rottingdean Beach.<\/p>\n

Ringed plover<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The highlight today though were the oystercatchers. I've managed a few snatched photos of them zipping along the shoreline, but today I stumbled upon a quiet part of the beach where half a dozen were paddling in the surf. <\/p>\n

Oystercatchers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

A minor spat<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Their behaviour seemed to follow a pattern. Whenever the ubiquitous gulls started to gather they would take to the wing and descend further along the beach, repeating this each time the gulls encroached their space.<\/p>\n

Taking flight<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

I've put some more shots of the oystercatchers<\/a> in an album.<\/p>\n

Still no sign of the old dog fox or the bold vixen, but the nicked-ear vixen was back tonight, calmer as reflected by the much improved weather (no winds). Here she is at the rear of the garden.<\/p>\n

Nicked-ear vixen<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Camera note: the oystercatchers and the plover were photographed with the EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens. The turnstone and the vixen were caught with the EF70-300mm 4.5-5.6 DO IS.<\/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":[4,989],"tags":[1128,453,457,456],"class_list":["post-1207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foxes","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-fox","tag-oystercatcher","tag-plover","tag-turnstone","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