{"id":2089,"date":"2011-10-23T22:10:11","date_gmt":"2011-10-23T21:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2089"},"modified":"2013-11-07T21:22:10","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T21:22:10","slug":"down-by-the-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/down-by-the-coast\/","title":{"rendered":"Down By the Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->We&#39;ve had more sunshine in the past few weeks than we had for most of the summer. I&#39;m not complaining, and this afternoon I went down to the coast at Rottingdean to see what was about. I was hoping the fulmars might be back from their summer excursions, but it&#39;s a little bit early for them. I might have more luck towards the end of next month.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, there were plenty of gulls to point the camera at. First, a herring gull.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/gull_2310119764.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p> If the sea looks calm in this shot it&#39;s because it was taken inside the marina breakwater. This is what the sea was doing on the other side.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/marina_2310119745.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>There are plenty of black-headed gulls around at the moment, but of course they are white-headed at this time of year.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/black_headed_gull_2310119636.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The black-headed gulls are among the smaller species. Less numerous, but at the other end of the size scale is the great black-backed gull. This one was fending off a pair of herring gulls (it had caught a crab).<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/black_backed_gull_2310119783.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The last of the seabirds for today are the oystercatcher. They&#39;re waders and zip along the coast in small flocks.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/oystercatcher_2310119684.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/oystercatcher_2310119711.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>I&#39;m going to close with one recent shot from the trail cam. This is the early hours of Friday morning, and is a rare sighting of one of our more irregular visitors.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/badger_2110110056.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 \/><a title=\"site stats\" href=\"http:\/\/statcounter.com\/free-web-stats\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/c.statcounter.com\/7187219\/0\/2c644058\/1\/\" alt=\"site stats\" style=\"border:none;\" \/><\/a><br \/><i>Camera note: all shots taken with the Canon 7D EF and 400mm f\/5.6L USM lens. Badger via the Bushnell Trophy cam.<\/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":[1044,1003,989],"tags":[160,378,522,1158,453],"class_list":["post-2089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coastal","category-landscape-2","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-badger-2","tag-black-headed-gull","tag-great-black-backed-gull","tag-herring-gull","tag-oystercatcher","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2089","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=2089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}