{"id":19493,"date":"2014-01-04T00:09:19","date_gmt":"2014-01-04T00:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/?p=19493"},"modified":"2014-01-04T00:09:19","modified_gmt":"2014-01-04T00:09:19","slug":"oystercatchers-at-rottingdean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/oystercatchers-at-rottingdean\/","title":{"rendered":"Oystercatchers at Rottingdean"},"content":{"rendered":"

I went down to the Rottingdean cliffs early this morning, before the rains arrived. The wind was blowing a near gale and the Undercliff walk was treacherous with waves crashing over the sea defences. It wasn’t a day for venturing along there with the camera.<\/p>\n

\"Rough<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Rough<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Rough<\/a><\/p>\n

There is a small area of pebble beach nestling between the stone groynes where things are a little calmer on days like this, even with the tide at a seasonal high. A small group of oystercatchers were sheltering on the pebbles, and picking among them for scraps of food.<\/p>\n

\"Oystercatcher<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Oystercatcher<\/a><\/p>\n

A pair were bold enough to venture out into the surf.<\/p>\n

\"Oystercatcher<\/a><\/p>\n

And then away… perhaps to find somewhere a little less exposed to the elements.<\/p>\n

\"Oystercatcher<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Oystercatcher<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Oystercatcher<\/a><\/p>\n

Camera note: all photos taken with the Canon 7D and EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I went down to the Rottingdean cliffs early this morning, before the rains arrived. The wind was blowing a near gale and the Undercliff walk was treacherous with waves crashing over the sea defences. It wasn’t a day for venturing along there with the camera. There is a small area of pebble beach nestling between […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1044,1003,989],"tags":[453,246,136,598],"class_list":["post-19493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coastal","category-landscape-2","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-oystercatcher","tag-rottingdean","tag-sea","tag-storm","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19493","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=19493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}