{"id":2317,"date":"2012-07-02T00:07:08","date_gmt":"2012-07-01T23:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2317"},"modified":"2013-11-04T20:53:48","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T20:53:48","slug":"seaside-birds-and-a-couple-of-fox-cubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/seaside-birds-and-a-couple-of-fox-cubs\/","title":{"rendered":"Seaside Birds (and a couple of fox cubs)"},"content":{"rendered":"

It almost felt like summer today. The sky was blue, and the sun shining. True the winds were fierce, but it was warm enough to take a walk along the shore line between Rottingdean and Saltdean.<\/p>\n

This little rock pipit was near the beginning of the walk.
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The herring gulls were out in force, but it was the slightly less common sighting of a great black-backed gull that caught my attention. Although superficially very similar to the herring gull, they are much larger and are among the most predatory of the gulls.
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We stopped off at the cafe at Saltdean for tea, and a minor surprise in a kestrel out hunting along the cliff top. It is quite astonishing that they can hover virtually motionless in winds gusting erratically at 30mph and above.
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Back at home the garden continues to be a fox cub playground. Here’s rough-ear (first picture) and the shy young male from this evening.
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\nCamera note: all bird shots taken with the Canon 7D and EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens. Foxes photographed with the EF 24-105 F4L 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":[980,4,989],"tags":[1142,1128,522,1152,516],"class_list":["post-2317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-foxes","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-cub","tag-fox","tag-great-black-backed-gull","tag-kestrel","tag-rock-pipit","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