{"id":1363,"date":"2009-04-12T01:04:13","date_gmt":"2009-04-12T00:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1363"},"modified":"2013-11-14T22:27:46","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T22:27:46","slug":"by-the-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/by-the-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"By the sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

I refuse to be defeated by the weather. Grey, overcast and damp. But there's always light by the coast \ud83d\ude09 And I was keen to give the new lens a more rigorous workout. To begin, a long distance shot of fulmars at sea (to prove that they are indeed sea birds). They seem just as prone to squabbling on the water as they are in their cliff nests. The shot is a fairly hefty crop.<\/p>\n

\"fulmar\"Fulmars out at sea<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

To make up for that being taken from an absurd distance (they were barely visible from the shore), here's a rather different view of one as it flew in overhead.<\/p>\n

\"fulmar\"Fulmar with close up view of its 'tube nose'.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

But for once it was the gulls that kept my attention. <\/p>\n

They were posing.<\/p>\n

\"gulls\"The Three Muses<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

\"gulls\"Herring gull (semi mature juvenile)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

And they were flocking.<\/p>\n

\"gullsA flock of gulls<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The 'spotting' highlight was a fly past by a group of oystercatchers as they skimmed the shoreline looking for a quiet spot to come in to feed (the tide was just going out). They seem to have designated one of their number as 'food carrier' \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

\"oystercatchers\"Oystercatchers skimming the coast<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

There are several more shots from today in the April Birds<\/a> album.
\"Nature<\/a><\/span>
Camera note: all shots taken with the EF 400mm f\/5.6L 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":[989],"tags":[508,49,533],"class_list":["post-1363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-fulmars","tag-gulls","tag-oystercatchers","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