{"id":2122,"date":"2011-11-27T23:11:38","date_gmt":"2011-11-27T23:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2122"},"modified":"2013-11-07T20:11:58","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T20:11:58","slug":"rottngdean-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/rottngdean-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Rottingdean Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Beautiful sunshine this afternoon, and the winds were moderate. Enough to get me down to Rottingdean again in search of fulmars. I was out of luck with them. It may be too early for nesting and yesterday&#39;s sighting may simply have been reconnaissance. The coast is, however, a busy place and there were numerous cormorants enjoy the fishing.<br \/> <span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/cormorant_2711113897.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/cormorant_2711113924.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Down on the gravel beach, a young herring gull was making quick work of a crab. Feeding must be good as it didn&#39;t have to fight of any rivals and was able to tuck in in relative peace.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/gull_crab_2711114088.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The undoubted stars though were the jackdaws. Large numbers inhabit the cliff face (sharing it with pipits, pigeons, and fulmars). Inevitably with such social birds, fights break out over which is the very best nook or cranny in the area. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/jackdaw_2711113993.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/jackdaw_2711114042.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/jackdaw_2711114045.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>There are several more photos in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/birds\/duelling-jackdaws\" target=\"_blank\">Duelling Jackdaws<\/a> gallery on my photography site.<\/p>\n<p>By the time I left the sun was setting, and the gulls were gathering at the local watering hole (the local pub) which sits at the top of the cliffs.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/gull_sunset_2711114236.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.<\/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":[1044,1022,989],"tags":[449,68,47],"class_list":["post-2122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coastal","category-sunset-landscape-2","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-cormorant","tag-gull","tag-jackdaw","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2122","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=2122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}