{"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<p><!--more-->I was in one of my favourite haunts for sea birds today&#8230; central London!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/3thames_0804093844.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/3thames_0804093844.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"273\" alt=\"thames\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">The River Thames (click to zoom)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>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<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/fox\/cormorants\/album\/slides\/cormorant_0804093764.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/cormorant_0804093764.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" alt=\"cormorant fishing\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/fox\/cormorants\/album\/slides\/cormorant_0804093765.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/cormorant_0804093765.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" alt=\"cormorant fishing\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/fox\/cormorants\/album\/slides\/cormorant_0804093766.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/cormorant_0804093766.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" alt=\"cormorant fishing\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/fox\/cormorants\/album\/slides\/cormorant_0804093767.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/cormorant_0804093767.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" alt=\"cormorant fishing\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/fox\/cormorants\/album\/slides\/cormorant_0804093768.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/cormorant_0804093768.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" alt=\"cormorant fishing\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/fox\/cormorants\/album\/slides\/cormorant_0804093769.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/cormorant_0804093769.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" alt=\"cormorant fishing\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/fox\/cormorants\/album\/slides\/cormorant_0804093770.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/cormorant_0804093770.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" alt=\"cormorant fishing\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That was a total of five seconds from dive to swallow! <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 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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359","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=1359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}