{"id":1566,"date":"2010-01-25T00:01:30","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T00:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1566"},"modified":"2013-11-11T22:47:31","modified_gmt":"2013-11-11T22:47:31","slug":"fulmars-at-rottingdean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/fulmars-at-rottingdean\/","title":{"rendered":"Fulmars at Rottingdean"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->I headed over to Rottingdean today to see how the fulmars were getting on. They&#39;ve now occupied most of the cliff face, and their cackling calls can easily be heard above the sound of the sea. Every now and then people stop and look up to see where the sound is coming from, and then puzzle about what kind of gull it is. Fulmars are not gulls, they&#39;re part of the petrel family (along with the albatross).<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/fulmar_2401101227.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Unlike gulls, fulmars have straight wings, and they tend to fly along the cliffs rather than over them.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/fulmar_2401101094.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>They also have tube-noses, which protude above their bill. They spend long periods at sea and are able to drink sea water. They extrude the excess salt through their nose. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/fulmar_2401101009.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>But generally the easiest way to spot them is that they nest in nooks and crannies on the cliff edge&#8230;<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/fulmar_2401100993.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>One other characteristic is that they are very poor walkers, often stumbling as they land&#8230; that is, when they land. Most of the time they circle in to a suitable resting point and then veer away at the last moment before trying again. I watched this one do several circuits before it managed a safe touch down.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/fulmar_2401101159.jpg' \/><\/span> <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 Canon 40D and EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS 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":[506],"class_list":["post-1566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-fulmar","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566","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=1566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}