{"id":1854,"date":"2011-02-21T23:02:45","date_gmt":"2011-02-21T23:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1854"},"modified":"2013-11-09T18:40:48","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T18:40:48","slug":"cliff-side-fulmars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/cliff-side-fulmars\/","title":{"rendered":"Cliff-side Fulmars"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

The fulmars are dominating the cliffs at Rottingdean at the moment. Supposedly fulmars are uncommon on the south coast, so I may be fortunate to have such a reliable and healthy colony on the doorstep. They can be seen anywhere around the British coastline, though the largest colonies are in Scotland. Numerically they are four times as common as the Herring Gull, a statistic that I suspect many will disbelieve (source: RSPB).
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There are plenty of gulls in the vicinity, but they rarely venture to the cliff face. The pigeons, starlings, pipits and jackdaws do. And so, very occasionally, does a kestrel.
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The last Rottingdean shot doesn't really have the ambiance of a traditional English seaside to it… somehow it seems more suited to a desert landscape (as perhaps does the kestrel). A pair of rooks.
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I'll close with a couple of garden photos. The first is a fearsome looking greenfinch!
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And finally… a fox (the young male, this evening).
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Camera note: all bird shots taken with the Canon 7D EF 400mm f\/5.6L USM lens. The fox was photographed with the EF 100mm f\/2.8L macro IS 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":[990,980,989],"tags":[1128,506,89,1152,46],"class_list":["post-1854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bird-of-prey","category-birds-2","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-fox","tag-fulmar","tag-greenfinch","tag-kestrel","tag-rook","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