{"id":1430,"date":"2009-07-07T23:07:46","date_gmt":"2009-07-07T22:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1430"},"modified":"2013-11-13T22:05:56","modified_gmt":"2013-11-13T22:05:56","slug":"gulls-in-motion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/gulls-in-motion\/","title":{"rendered":"Gulls in Motion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->Gulls are such a common sight locally that (other than the chicks) I rarely spend any time photographing them. I took this sequence at lunchtime, just before weather didn&#8217;t so much break as utterly collapse. The afternoon and early evening were punctuated with torrential downpours and some localized flooding. So much for a long hot summer. The photos were taken at a local village pond.<\/p>\n<p>First a couple of single birds in flight. These are black-headed gulls (so called because of the brown head plumage which they display in summer):<\/p>\n<p><!--cut and paste--><a href=\"http:\/\/my.opera.com\/Words\/albums\/showpic.dml?album=171501&amp;picture=11102647\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Black-headed gull\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/black_headed_gull_0707091792.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"343\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Black-headed gull<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--cut and paste--><a href=\"http:\/\/my.opera.com\/Words\/albums\/showpic.dml?album=171501&amp;picture=11102652\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Black-headed gull\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/black_headed_gull_0707091824.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Black-headed gull<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While I was watching the birds, someone started feeding them slices of bread. The inevitable chaos ensued as the gulls (black-headeds and heron gulls) swarmed to grab what they could.<\/p>\n<p><!--cut and paste--><a href=\"http:\/\/my.opera.com\/Words\/albums\/showpic.dml?album=171501&amp;picture=11102657\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Gulls in motion\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/gulls_0707091780.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Gulls in motion<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--cut and paste--><a href=\"http:\/\/my.opera.com\/Words\/albums\/showpic.dml?album=171501&amp;picture=11102644\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Gulls after bread\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/black_headed_gull_0707091775.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Gulls after bread<\/span><\/a>.<br \/>\n<span class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/natureblognetwork.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Nature Blog Network\" src=\"http:\/\/natureblognetwork.com\/button.php?u=Words\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<i>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":[49],"class_list":["post-1430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-gulls","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430","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=1430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}