{"id":2263,"date":"2012-05-07T23:05:08","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T22:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2263"},"modified":"2013-11-05T20:25:32","modified_gmt":"2013-11-05T20:25:32","slug":"after-the-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/after-the-rain\/","title":{"rendered":"After the rain&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->That has to have been one of the wettest Bank Holiday weekends I can remember (though thinking about it, the previous one was even wetter), and the weather is the reason for the lack of posts. It rained again today, but we did get a brief respite mid to late afternoon, which included some warm sunshine, plenty of activity at Rottingdean shoreline, and an early visit from our regular fox, Shutterbug. <\/p>\n<p>Being Rottingdean, the fulmars of course were active. Several were basking on the water (a little too far off for a usable photo), but others were cruising the cliff face looking for potential landing sites.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/fulmar_0705124291.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The rock pipits were out making good use of the warm weather to hunt out as much insect life as a small bird can manage.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/rock_pipit_0705124382.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The gulls were unusually subdued. This one is actually yawning!<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/gull_0705124542.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Further out on the water, s small number of common terns were fishing. Again, the distance all but defeated the camera, but it was great to see their steep dives as they sought out their fishy prey.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/common_tern_0705124573.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The sun lasted just a few more hours (it&#39;s raining again as I type), long enough for the butterflies and damsels to briefly show in the garden. This is a wall brown butterfly.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/wall_brown_butterfly_0705124628.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>And this, a red damselfly; presumably one of the many that are emerging (unseen) from the garden pond.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/damselfly_0705124640.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The star, as ever, though is a fox: Shutterbug. He appeared while the sun was still shining, ambled around sleepily (I think he must have just woken up), rested briefly and then went on his way.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/fox_shutterbug_0705124664.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/fox_shutterbug_0705124702.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/fox_shutterbug_0705124712.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/fox_shutterbug_0705124714.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 400mm f\/5.6L USM lens, except the damselfly which was taken with the EF 100mm f\/2.8L macro IS USM lens.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[980,992,1044,77,4,991,989,3],"tags":[862,1170,1128,506,1158,516,863],"class_list":["post-2263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-butterfly-insects-2","category-coastal","category-dragonfly","category-foxes","category-insects-2","category-water-birds-birds-2","category-wildlife","tag-common-tern","tag-damselfly","tag-fox","tag-fulmar","tag-herring-gull","tag-rock-pipit","tag-wall-brown-butterfly","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}