{"id":1388,"date":"2009-05-15T00:05:09","date_gmt":"2009-05-14T23:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1388"},"modified":"2013-11-14T21:21:43","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T21:21:43","slug":"seabirds-in-the-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/seabirds-in-the-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Seabirds in the City"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Today&#39;s sequences were all taken a minute or so from Tower Bridge, in the heart of London. The weather was overcast, but dry.<\/p>\n<p>There were several herring gulls in the vicinity, and this pair discovered a crab which became the subject of a minor tussle.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/gull_crab_1405092206.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Herring Gulls discover a crab in the mud<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Looking further out into the river, I watched a lone cormorant take to the air. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/cormorant_1405092097.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Cormorant taking off<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/cormorant_1405092104.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/cormorant_1405092105.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The star turn though was undoubtedly a pair of lesser black-backed gulls. There are more of them (and of the herring gulls) in the <a href=\"http:\/\/my.opera.com\/Words\/albums\/show.dml?id=763031\" target=\"_blank\">May Birds<\/a> album, but here&#39;s a short sequence.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/lesser_black_backed_gull_1405092135.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/lesser_black_backed_gull_1405092135.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" alt=\"lesser black-backed gull\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Lesser Black-backed Gull<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/lesser_black_backed_gull_1405092154.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/lesser_black_backed_gull_1405092154.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" alt=\"lesser black-backed gull\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/lesser_black_backed_gull_1405092155.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/lesser_black_backed_gull_1405092155.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" alt=\"lesser black-backed gull\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/lesser_black_backed_gull_1405092156.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/lesser_black_backed_gull_1405092156.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" alt=\"lesser black-backed gull\" \/><\/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":[448,540],"class_list":["post-1388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-sea-birds","tag-tower-bridge","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388","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=1388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}