{"id":1522,"date":"2009-11-14T23:11:21","date_gmt":"2009-11-14T23:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1522"},"modified":"2013-11-12T21:31:36","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T21:31:36","slug":"wet-and-windy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wet-and-windy\/","title":{"rendered":"Wet and Windy"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

The weather has not been good. Along the coast gusts of up to 100mph were reported overnight. It wasn't quite so severe where we are, but we awoke to metal-grey skies, wind and rain. By early afternoon there were hints that the sun might break through, but this proved to be a false dawn. The squalls were moving through rapidly though so I chanced a quick visit to Rottingdean.<\/p>\n

The tide was out, which normally would be ideal but I was after crashing waves against the sea walls. I ventured down on to the beach instead. A small number of people were braving the elements, but generally it was quiet. Except for the sea…<\/p>\n

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I didn't stay long. The winds made it treacherous. Stones were strewn over the paths, and the light (never good to begin with) was fading fast. The rains were never far away.<\/p>\n

It's quiet now (though still raining).<\/p>\n

Back in the garden, it's also been quiet. The trail cam has revealed a much reduced level of activity over the past week (brief glimpses of the foxes, and one sighting of a badger). Seasonal, or perhaps weather related. Last night (strictly speaking, the early hours of Saturday morning), I did finally get a direct sighting of the Bold Vixen. She was lurking at the rear of the garden. She is still displaying a slight limp, but it's harder to detect now. She occasionally holds the leg when she's standing, but mostly she seems content to place weight on it. A good recovery all told.
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Camera note: all the sea shots taken with the Canon 40D and EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens and UV filter (mainly to protect the lens). I used the EF 24-105 F4L IS USM lens for the vixen.<\/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":[1044,4],"tags":[1128,246,136,598],"class_list":["post-1522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coastal","category-foxes","tag-fox","tag-rottingdean","tag-sea","tag-storm","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522","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=1522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}