{"id":1337,"date":"2009-03-15T00:03:58","date_gmt":"2009-03-15T00:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1337"},"modified":"2013-11-15T18:42:58","modified_gmt":"2013-11-15T18:42:58","slug":"a-bird-selection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/a-bird-selection\/","title":{"rendered":"A Bird Selection"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

I'll catch up with the pond (which is excelling itself) in a later post, but for now here is a small selection of birds spotted today. First up is a beautiful variant of a much maligned beauty, the pigeon. I saw it while scanning the cliffs for fulmars.<\/p>\n

\"whiteWhite pigeon at Rottingdean<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Another of the cliff inhabitants is the starling. These are more commonly seen gathering on the local rooftops or in trees, but occasionally perch in the nooks and crannies that pepper the cliff face. <\/p>\n

\"starling\"Starling<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

And of course the cliffs are home to the fulmars, which continue to dominate.<\/p>\n

\"fulmars\"Fulmars<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

There were gulls as well…<\/p>\n

\"juvenileJuvenile herring gulls<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

\"blackBlack-headed gulls<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

But my prize spot of the day was a ringed plover which appeared as the tide was going out…<\/p>\n

\"ringedRinged plover<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

And a closer view…<\/p>\n

\"ringedRinged plover on the beach<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

All these and more in the March Birds<\/a> album.<\/p>\n

in case you were wondering, the trail cam is set up outside. I didn't get anything last night, which I think is due to the camera being set too high. It's much nearer the ground tonight and set to video mode working to the theory that if I let it shoot 30 second bursts the chance of a hit is greater. Here's hoping there will be proof positive in the morning.
\"Nature<\/a><\/span>
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":[980,989],"tags":[506,49,59,457,34],"class_list":["post-1337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-fulmar","tag-gulls","tag-pigeon","tag-plover","tag-starling","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337","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=1337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}