{"id":1302,"date":"2009-02-04T23:02:34","date_gmt":"2009-02-04T23:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1302"},"modified":"2013-11-16T00:22:46","modified_gmt":"2013-11-16T00:22:46","slug":"an-easier-fish-to-identify","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/an-easier-fish-to-identify\/","title":{"rendered":"An easier fish to identify"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->I was back in London today, and the cormorants were back grappling with the local fish. Last time it was (after much debate) a flounder. This time I&#39;m ready to risk my own identification and say the catch is an eel.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/fox\/cormorants\/album\/slides\/cormorant_0402092784.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/cormorant_0402092784.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" alt=\"cormorant and eel\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">The catch<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/fox\/cormorants\/album\/slides\/cormorant_0402092796.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/cormorant_0402092796.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" alt=\"cormorant and eel\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Ouch! Competition is evidently fierce between cormorants<\/span> <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/fox\/cormorants\/album\/slides\/cormorant_0402092824.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/cormorant_0402092824.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" alt=\"cormorant and eel\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Easy does it<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An equal surprise was the amount of snow still sitting in London. It made an ideal backdrop for the starlings (more of which are in the <a href=\"http:\/\/my.opera.com\/Words\/albums\/show.dml?id=688633\" target=\"_blank\">February Birds<\/a> album). <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/starlings_0402092960.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/starlings_0402092960.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" alt=\"starlings in the snow\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Starlings in the snow at the Tower of London<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I also took a few tourist shots while I was there&#8230; as well as numerous photos <i>for<\/i> couples who proffered their camera at me and asked for a shot with either the Tower or the Bridge in the background. I was happy to oblige \ud83d\ude00 <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/tower_of_london_0402092957.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">Tower of London<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/tower_of_london_0402093026.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">Tower of London from across the Thames<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/tower_bridge_0402092953.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">Tourists with Tower Bridge in the background<\/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: the cormorants were taken with the EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens. All the rest of today&#39;s photos (including the starlings in the snow) were taken with the EF 17-40mm 1:4L USM lens. It was odd using such a short lens for birds, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/starlings_0402092973.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">but not ineffective<\/a>.<\/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":[980,1040,1003,989],"tags":[484,168,511],"class_list":["post-1302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-fish-2","category-landscape-2","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-cormorants","tag-starlings","tag-tower-of-london","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302","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=1302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}