{"id":2023,"date":"2011-08-17T23:08:51","date_gmt":"2011-08-17T22:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2023"},"modified":"2013-11-08T19:18:17","modified_gmt":"2013-11-08T19:18:17","slug":"beware-low-flying-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/beware-low-flying-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware Low Flying Birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The title is simply an excuse to post a few shots taken at Falmer pond today.  First thing this morning the cormorant was hiding, so much so that I wondered if he&#39;d wandered away. I did eventually spot the heron (it&#39;s surprising how well such a large bird can hide itself in the right conditions). It was lurking under  some overhanging branches in the north-east corner of the pond. And then it took off&#8230;<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/heron_1708113934.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/heron_1708113939.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>There was little else to see until lunchtime, when my continued search for the cormorant took me to the southern end of the pond, where numerous ducks were gathering. Here&#39;s an incoming duck! All grace and elegance :whistle:<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/duck_1708113952.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/duck_1708113954.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>And then finally I spotted the cormorant. He was swimming up and down along the eastern edge of the pond, in deep shade, but eventually made his way out into the open water. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/cormorant_1708114130.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/cormorant_1708114132.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/cormorant_1708114136.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>That short flight was quickly followed by a scramble on to the island, where he shook himself down and hung himself out to dry. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/cormorant_1708114185.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 7D EF 400mm f\/5.6L USM lens.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[989],"tags":[449,1160,1179],"class_list":["post-2023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-cormorant","tag-duck","tag-heron","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}