{"id":1515,"date":"2009-11-02T00:11:21","date_gmt":"2009-11-02T00:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1515"},"modified":"2013-11-12T21:39:52","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T21:39:52","slug":"a-walk-along-rottingdean-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/a-walk-along-rottingdean-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"A Walk Along Rottingdean Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

The rain finally cleared away from the coast mid afternoon, and needing some fresh air we went for a bracing walk along Rottingdean beach. For a dull windy day, it was high on the success scale for bird spotting. This is the view when we arrived.
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I saw an oystercatcher skim by. And there were gulls aplenty, though mainly of the Herring variety. Among them was a great black-backed gull.
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A more unusual visitor was lurking at the edge of the water. This is the first heron I've seen along the beach. The gulls eventually decided that a heron was one intruder too many, and several started a minor mobbing.
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The heron settled further along the beach, near where this relatively rare visitor was trying its luck in the surf.
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The heron had its own ideas though, and very soon chased the curlew away.
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While all this was going on, a flock (well, six) cormorants flew by.
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And on the rocks, the starlings gathered as the sun began to lower in the sky.
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If there's one thing starlings are renowned for, it's their flocking and sure enough they took to the skies in a typically ragged, but unbelievably well coordinated, fashion.
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And throughout, the sea transmuted into gold under the changing light.
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Camera note: all shots taken with the Canon 40D and EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens with UV filter.<\/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":[33,246,136],"class_list":["post-1515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coastal","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-birds","tag-rottingdean","tag-sea","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