{"id":1501,"date":"2009-10-12T00:10:41","date_gmt":"2009-10-11T23:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1501"},"modified":"2013-11-12T21:59:33","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T21:59:33","slug":"seafood-special-great-black-backed-gull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/seafood-special-great-black-backed-gull\/","title":{"rendered":"Seafood Special (Great Black-Backed Gull)"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

I mentioned yesterday that the weather was 'inconsistent'. Well today was damp, grey and windy but there's only so long I can take being cooped up so we headed over to Rottingdean. Where it was damp, grey and windy.
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A few gulls were sheltering on the pebbles. It was quiet, and there was little worth photographing until, that is, I saw a great black-backed gull fly in. It had seen something on the beach and I went to investigate.
<\/span> Great Black-Backed gull with crab<\/span><\/p>\n

It was sufficiently intent on feeding to ignore me as I approached a little closer.
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The surrounding black-headed and herring gulls were leaving it alone, and only dared approach as it was near finishing its feast. Even then, they were given short shrift.
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We continued our walk along the undercliff path. A lone boat was out on the water. <\/p>\n

\"boatLooks rough out there<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

We followed it as it made its way along the coast. It seemed to be more or less following a path between flagged buoys, and despite appearances in the previous shot it wasn't sinking. At least we hope not. When I checked the photos later I could make out a yachtsman on board, so I presume he had things more or less under control (or would at least have been able to signal for help… the local marina is just a mile away from where he was).<\/p>\n

\"boatA few minutes later<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Of course when we got home, the sun emerged (briefly). That's always the way. <\/p>\n

There's a longer sequence of shots of the gull feeding<\/a> up on my site.
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Camera note: all shots taken with the Canon 40D. The first shot and the gull were all photographed with the EF 200mm f\/2.8L II USM lens. The yacht was photographed with the EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS.<\/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":[1044,989],"tags":[248,522,136],"class_list":["post-1501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coastal","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-boat","tag-great-black-backed-gull","tag-sea","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501","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=1501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}