{"id":1720,"date":"2010-09-13T23:09:01","date_gmt":"2010-09-13T22:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1720"},"modified":"2013-11-10T13:13:44","modified_gmt":"2013-11-10T13:13:44","slug":"early-morning-at-rottingdean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/early-morning-at-rottingdean\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Morning at Rottingdean"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

The main garden activity last night (Monday) was in the small hours when all three of the regular foxes turned up. I missed them (the trail cam didn't), so instead of a family of foxes, or indeed more slugs and snails, today's post is a more conventional walk along Rottingdean Beach. <\/p>\n

The tide was out this morning; almost too far out, as most of the bird activity was in the distance across moderately treacherous rock pools. There are, however, a few places where it's relatively easy to get to the water's edge and that's where I took these shots of a young sandwich tern.
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Easier to spot are the crabs and smaller crustaceans which are abandoned in pools by the retreating tide. This one seems to be upside down :confused:
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Possibly better than being airborne \ud83d\ude09
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Among the less regular sightings at Rottingdean are herons. I do see them occasionally, but the larger gulls tend to chase them off. This heron was beating a retreat from a black-backed gull (just out of shot)!
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The final two shots for today are of another pair of birds competing for air space. This time one of the innumerable jackdaws was seeing off a kestrel.
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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.<\/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":[990,989],"tags":[33,246],"class_list":["post-1720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bird-of-prey","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-birds","tag-rottingdean","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