{"id":2164,"date":"2012-01-16T23:01:18","date_gmt":"2012-01-16T23:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2164"},"modified":"2013-11-06T23:41:59","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T23:41:59","slug":"frozen-falmer-or-dancing-on-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/frozen-falmer-or-dancing-on-ice\/","title":{"rendered":"Frozen Falmer – or Dancing on Ice"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

It was a beautiful cold morning today. The sun was rising over Falmer Pond….
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Just as the moon was setting….
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The pond itself was frozen…
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But the sun was emerging, adding its glint to the icy scene.
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Overhead, a cormorant flew over and circled the pond but declined to land. No fishing here today.
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Quick shift to lunchtime. Still cold. Still frozen, But a little more active. <\/p>\n

A moorhen partners a black-headed gull to audition for Dancing on Ice \ud83d\ude09
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But the competition is fierce. A trio of black-headeds are also keen to qualify.
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What they lack in elegance, the mallards make up for with the sheer energy of their performance.
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Even the massed chorus line gave us a twirl.
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A cold day, but a good day.
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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":[980,16,989],"tags":[378,449,1160,1158,1191,1172],"class_list":["post-2164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-snow","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-black-headed-gull","tag-cormorant","tag-duck","tag-herring-gull","tag-ice","tag-moorhen","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t