{"id":1816,"date":"2011-01-09T23:01:37","date_gmt":"2011-01-09T23:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1816"},"modified":"2013-11-09T21:29:18","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T21:29:18","slug":"fulmars-in-the-sunshine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/fulmars-in-the-sunshine\/","title":{"rendered":"Fulmars in the Sunshine"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->It won&#39;t last, but we saw sunshine today&#8230; all day, and at the weekend! Ok, it&#39;s freezing cold outside now (the pond has ice on it) and the forecast is for rain later in the week, but as the saying goes, &#39;make hay while the sun shines&#39; which is exactly what we did.<\/p>\n<p>We took the relatively lazy option of heading down to Rottingdean. This avoids the sodden fields and woodland paths, plus guarantees some decent bird sightings as well as good views. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/marina_0901116378.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">View of Brighton Marina taken from the top of the Rottingdean cliffs<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/saltdean_0901116480.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">Gulls&#8230; with Saltdean in the background<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The tide was in (which means there was little chance of seeing any waders), and the undercliff promenade was crowded with people out enjoying the sun. This isn&#39;t a quiet spot, but that doesn&#39;t seem to bother the birds that make Rottingdean their home. Like this jackdaw, one of many that live in small crevices in the rock face.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/jackdaw_0901116481.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>But being Rottingdean, and this being my blog, main photos are inevitably going to be fulmars. The colony looks very healthy and there was a constant traffic of them flying along the cliff face, circling out to sea and sweeping in as they attempted to find a rocky foothold. And &#39;rocky&#39; is the word&#8230; nine times out of 10 it&#39;s &#39;mission abandoned&#39;. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/fulmar_0901116774.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/fulmar_0901116698.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/fulmar_0901116596.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Some do make it of course&#8230;<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/fulmar_0901116458.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Mainly though, this is what you see&#8230;<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/fulmar_0901116575.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/fulmar_0901116491.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/fulmar_0901116515.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>While we were there I took one other shot which I&#39;ll post tonight. This view features in a current National Lottery TV advert. I&#39;ve no idea why they chose to film in Rottingdean, but they did. Anyway, it&#39;s a great view and gives a good idea of the size of the chalk cliffs.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/beach_huts_0901116847.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">Beach huts at Rottingdean<\/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, except the final shot which was taken with the EF17-40mm f\/4L USM 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":[1044,1003,989],"tags":[508,47,246],"class_list":["post-1816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coastal","category-landscape-2","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-fulmars","tag-jackdaw","tag-rottingdean","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816","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=1816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}