{"id":2121,"date":"2011-11-26T23:11:12","date_gmt":"2011-11-26T23:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2121"},"modified":"2013-11-07T20:13:10","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T20:13:10","slug":"the-fulmars-are-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/the-fulmars-are-back\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fulmars are Back!"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->I had to pop down to Rottingdean this morning and took the opportunity to see if our regular winter visitors, the fulmars, were back. And they were. I counted 20 or 30 skimming along the cliff tops looking for nesting sites. None landed, although several came close to cliff-face touchdown. Fulmars have very weak legs (they spend an inordinate amount of time at sea), and landing, or indeed walking, is one of the trickier parts of their routine. The general pattern is to fly close to a possible landing site (normally a small crevice in a cliff), hover over it for a moment, and then retreat and start the process all over again. On today&#39;s visit I didn&#39;t see any that had actually managed touch-down!<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/fulmar_2611113815.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/fulmar_2611113827.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/fulmar_2611113833.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Down on the Undercliff walkway the wagtails and rock pipits were busy hunting the late autumn insects. This one paused for a moment and tried to out stare me!<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/pipit_2611113840.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/pipit_2611113852.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.<\/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":[980,989],"tags":[506,516],"class_list":["post-2121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-fulmar","tag-rock-pipit","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121","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=2121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}