{"id":1287,"date":"2009-01-13T00:01:33","date_gmt":"2009-01-13T00:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1287"},"modified":"2009-01-13T00:01:33","modified_gmt":"2009-01-13T00:01:33","slug":"hard-to-swallow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/hard-to-swallow\/","title":{"rendered":"Hard to swallow…"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

These photos aren't particularly good. They were taken this morning at Tower Bridge in London, in light drizzle and from much too far away. However, they're my first shots of a cormorant actually catching a fish. Problem was, the fish was somewhat wider than the cormorant's throat. I watched the struggle for about 5 minutes. Lots of head throwing by the bird, flapping by the fish, the occasional dunking and a gradual drift down the Thames of about 100 yards. At which point I had to leave them to it to get to a meeting. Anyway, three not very good shots coming up.
Catching<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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

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

The fish, by the way, is possibly a flounder.
\"Nature<\/a><\/span>
Camera note: all shots taken with the EF70-300mm f\/4.5-5.6 DO IS USM lens, at ISO 800, f\/5.6 and shutter speeds of between 1\/125 and 1\/200s. All shots have been cropped.<\/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":[1],"tags":[449,504],"class_list":["post-1287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cormorant","tag-flounder","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