{"id":1359,"date":"2009-04-08T23:04:33","date_gmt":"2009-04-08T22:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1359"},"modified":"2013-11-14T22:30:51","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T22:30:51","slug":"the-perfect-catch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/the-perfect-catch\/","title":{"rendered":"The perfect catch"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

I was in one of my favourite haunts for sea birds today… central London!<\/p>\n

\"thames\"The River Thames (click to zoom)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

And yes, the cormorants were there. Not in great numbers, but I watched a pair of them diving for fish and eventually caught this sequence. <\/p>\n

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That was a total of five seconds from dive to swallow!
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Camera note: all cormorant shots taken with the EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens. The view of the river was taken with the EF 17-40mm 1:4L USM 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":[1003,989],"tags":[449,74,531],"class_list":["post-1359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-landscape-2","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-cormorant","tag-london","tag-river-thames","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