{"id":1265,"date":"2008-12-16T23:12:24","date_gmt":"2008-12-16T23:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1265"},"modified":"2013-11-18T23:34:32","modified_gmt":"2013-11-18T23:34:32","slug":"winter-at-the-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/winter-at-the-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter at the beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->I had a rare chance to head into Brighton this morning for work, and gave myself a little extra time to walk the last part along Brighton beach. The weather was overcast, if not misty and very few people were about. A couple of dog-walkers was about it. <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/brighton_beach_1612084600.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/brighton_beach_1612084600.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The sea birds were still waking up. I had hoped to see the starlings over West Pier, but I suspect that&#39;s more of an evening spectacle. I wasn&#39;t entirely disappointed though. Cormorants and black-backed seagulls, happily perching along with some juvenile gulls.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/seabirds_1612084554.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/seabirds_1612084554.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/seabirds_1612084520.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/seabirds_1612084520.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>The resting point is the ruins of the West Pier, one of the highlights (?) of Brighton sea front. It&#39;s been collapsing into the sea for around 30 years, and suffers periodic storm and fire damage (though there&#39;s precious little left now). All plans for rebuilding have come to nothing \ud83d\ude41<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/west_pier_1612084577.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/west_pier_1612084577.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And in the distance the Palace Pier (sorry, that&#39;s what it will always be to me) seen through the beach-side ruins of the West Pier.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/brighton_pier_1612084571.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/brighton_pier_1612084571.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And just to update on the fox front, nicked-ear came through the garden briefly, dodging the light showers we&#39;ve had this evening. <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/1712081612084630.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/1712081612084630.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><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: The first and fourth pictures were taken with the EF 17-40mm 1:4L USM lens. The others of Brighton Beach were taken with the EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens. This evening&#39;s shot of the nicked-ear vixen was taken with the EF 24-105 F4L IS USM 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":[1044],"tags":[247,33,416,1128],"class_list":["post-1265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coastal","tag-beach","tag-birds","tag-brighton","tag-fox","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}