{"id":1471,"date":"2009-08-29T00:08:53","date_gmt":"2009-08-28T23:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1471"},"modified":"2013-11-13T19:55:51","modified_gmt":"2013-11-13T19:55:51","slug":"stormy-seas-at-rottingdean-photo-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/stormy-seas-at-rottingdean-photo-special\/","title":{"rendered":"Stormy Seas at Rottingdean (photo special)"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->It was one of those late summer days today. High winds, sunshine, a sudden cloudburst as the storm clouds swept in, and then sunshine again. The kind of day when the best place to be is by the coast.  <\/p>\n<p>These are a few of the photos from this afternoon. Click on them to zoom.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/gulls_2808091980.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/gulls_2808091980.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" alt=\"gulls\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">While the sun was shining, the black-headed gulls gathered<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/sea_2808092187.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/sea_2808092187.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"245\" alt=\"sea\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">The sea was &#39;choppy&#39;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/sea_2808092076.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/sea_2808092076.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" alt=\"beach with warning flag\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">The red warning flag was flying, but a surfer was heading out to the waves<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/sea_2808092258.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/sea_2808092258.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"230\" alt=\"sea\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">The view towards Brighton<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/sea_2808092188.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/sea_2808092188.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"320\" alt=\"view of brighton marina\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">The sea and the marina<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/sea_2808092218.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/sea_2808092218.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" alt=\"sea\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">It was rough out there<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/sea_2808092084.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/sea_2808092084.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" alt=\"gulls at sea\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Gulls over the sea<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>No fulmars about today, and no sandwich terns either. A cormorant flew by early in the afternoon, but the most sensible of the birds was a jackdaw which was keeping well away from the sea, preferring (as did we) the shelter by the side of the cliff-top hostelry, and being very determined not to risk leaving <i>terra firma<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/jackdaw_2808092118.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/jackdaw_2808092118.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" alt=\"jackdaw with white feather\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Jackdaw, with white feather<\/span><br \/>\n<\/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 200mm f\/2.8L II USM.<\/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":[1044],"tags":[49,47,246,136],"class_list":["post-1471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coastal","tag-gulls","tag-jackdaw","tag-rottingdean","tag-sea","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471","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=1471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}