{"id":2113,"date":"2011-11-18T23:11:46","date_gmt":"2011-11-18T23:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2113"},"modified":"2013-11-07T20:27:22","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T20:27:22","slug":"blue-gulls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/blue-gulls\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Gulls"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Or &#39;Blue Blurry Gulls&#39; to be exact. The dull mornings are keeping my camera on slow. These shots are a slight variation on the recent theme in that I&#39;ve tried to keep a tight focus on the bird&#39;s head. It doesn&#39;t always work, but I think it does in this one. It helps when the bird keeps its head in one plane.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/gull_blur_1811112162.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>If it moves around too much you get something like this.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/gull_blur_1811112177.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>With even less movement, you get this.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/gull_blur_1811112191.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/gull_blur_1811112241.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The only &#39;proper&#39; shot from today is a goldfinch, which dropped down to perch on a nearby fence.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/goldfinch_1811112242.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>I didn&#39;t manage to get a photo of a perching buzzard by the side of the road (I was driving at the time, but it was great to see it), or a pair of overflying sparrowhawks as I walked from one meeting to another while at work. <\/p>\n<p>No sign yet of the foxes this evening, but this one was the pick of the trailcam images from a couple of nights ago.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/fox_x2_1711110060.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 and EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens. Trailcam foxes 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":[980,4],"tags":[1128,211,68],"class_list":["post-2113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-foxes","tag-fox","tag-goldfinch","tag-gull","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2113","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=2113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}