{"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<p><!--more-->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&#39;t), so instead of a family of foxes, or indeed more slugs and snails, today&#39;s post is a more conventional walk along Rottingdean Beach. <\/p>\n<p>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&#39;s relatively easy to get to the water&#39;s edge and that&#39;s where I took these shots of a young sandwich tern.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/sandwich_tern_1309107719.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/sandwich_tern_1309107723.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/sandwich_tern_1309107725.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>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:<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/crab_1309107739.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Possibly better than being airborne \ud83d\ude09<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/gull_crab_1309107519.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>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)!<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/heron_1309107536.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>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.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/kestrel_jackdaw_1309107573.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/kestrel_jackdaw_1309107574.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":[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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720","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=1720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}