{"id":1329,"date":"2009-03-05T00:03:33","date_gmt":"2009-03-05T00:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1329"},"modified":"2013-11-15T19:32:20","modified_gmt":"2013-11-15T19:32:20","slug":"london-calling-i-live-by-the-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/london-calling-i-live-by-the-river\/","title":{"rendered":"London Calling (I live by the river)"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->I had a few minutes to spare in London today. The cormorants were &#8211; for once &#8211; conspicuous by their absence (I saw only one, fleetingly, as it flew past). The gulls, on the other hand, were there in number&#8230; and variety.<\/p>\n<p>The black-headed gulls were the most numerous, with small flocks gathered on the mud at the river&#39;s edge<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/black_headed_gull_0403097750.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/black_headed_gull_0403097750.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" alt=\"black headed gulls\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Black-headed gulls, adult and juvenile<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/black_headed_gull_0403097744.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/black_headed_gull_0403097744.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" alt=\"black headed gulls\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Black-headed gull by the Thames<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The herring gulls were fewer in number, but this pair seemed intent on addressing the population imbalance.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/gulls_0403097696.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/gulls_0403097696.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" alt=\"herring gulls\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Herring gulls<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The highlight though, for me, was a pair of lesser black backed gulls. Note their yellow legs (probably the easiest means of identification).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/lesser_black_backed_gull_0403097757.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/lesser_black_backed_gull_0403097757.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" alt=\"lesser black backed gull\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Lesser black backed gull<\/span><\/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: 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":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[989],"tags":[49],"class_list":["post-1329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-gulls","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1329","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}