{"id":1701,"date":"2010-08-24T00:08:06","date_gmt":"2010-08-23T23:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1701"},"modified":"2013-11-10T15:16:59","modified_gmt":"2013-11-10T15:16:59","slug":"sea-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/sea-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"Sea Birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->I&#39;d long given up on the day by the time the sun emerged, so these were taken in somewhat gloomy light with just a hint of mist. The tide was out (I&#39;ve finally located an accurate <a href=\"http:\/\/easytide.ukho.gov.uk\/EASYTIDE\/EasyTide\/SelectPort.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">tide-guide<\/a>, which has pretty much the whole globe covered) and I was interested to see if any waders were about. Not many as it happened, but there were some great black-backed gulls.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/black_backed_gull_2308102075.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/black_backed_gull_2308102100.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The black-headed gulls were present in some number, though they seem to have recognized the brevity of our summer and are already developing their winter plumage.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/black_headed_gull_2308102059.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Several cormorants skimmed the shore line.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/cormorant_2308102219.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>As for the waders, I saw a single oystercatcher sweeping past.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/oystercatcher_2308102266.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>One final shot from today. A &#39;reject&#39; which is totally out of focus. So much out of focus that I decided to keep it because, oddly, I quite like it as an image. It&#39;s also a fair approximation of what I would actually see if I dispensed with my glasses :eyes:<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/seagulls_2308102060.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":[33,246],"class_list":["post-1701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-birds","tag-rottingdean","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1701","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=1701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}