{"id":2288,"date":"2012-06-02T00:06:30","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T23:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2288"},"modified":"2013-11-04T23:47:05","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T23:47:05","slug":"red-kite-over-falmer-and-a-very-loud-housemartin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/red-kite-over-falmer-and-a-very-loud-housemartin\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Kite over Falmer, and a very loud Housemartin"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->I&#39;&#39;m going to start today&#39;s post with a couple of shots left over from yesterday, including these house martins which were busy gathering mud for nests. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/house_martin_3105120041.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>And from the latter end of yesterday a shot of a fulmar squeezing itself into a hollow in the cliffs at Rottingdean.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/fulmar_3105120443.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The young moorhens were out again this morning. They are such wonderfully bizarre little things that I can never quite believe they are real. They seem to be doing well enough though, and they have two doting parents to look after them.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/moorhen_chick_0106120558.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/moorhen_chick_0106120604.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The big sighting of the day came as I was leaving work to the sound of a very loud housemartin.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/fatboy_slim_0106120705.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>If that picture has left you bemused (and I can see why it might), then I should explain. The boxes (presumably full of  gig merchandise) are inside the Falmer Stadium which is hosting the Fatboy Slim &#39;Big Beach Boutique&#39; gig (FbS aka Norman Cook, one time member of the Housmartins). That was convoluted to say the least, but anyway the music was starting up as I was leaving work. In fact it had been going for a while, but by 5.00pm the volume was beginning to increase. The usual squadron of gulls that circles overhead at just about every time of day were absent.  I thought maybe the music had driven them away, but a second scan of the skies suggested that their absence was for a quite different reason.<\/p>\n<p>Gliding in at a relatively  modest altitude was the unmistakeable shape of a red kite.  Maybe it was attracted by the 120bpm music (maybe not) but it was by some way the closest encounter I&#39;ve had with a red kite over the Sussex Downs. The shots aren&#39;t great (poor light and they were grabbed very rapidly), but I&#39;m not going to not post them \ud83d\ude09<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/red_kite_0106120719.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/red_kite_0106120718.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":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,980,1,989],"tags":[1177,874,506,562,1172,433],"class_list":["post-2288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bird-of-prey","category-birds-2","category-uncategorized","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-chick","tag-fatboy-slim","tag-fulmar","tag-house-martin","tag-moorhen","tag-red-kite","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288","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=2288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}