{"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":"<p><!--more-->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<p>This little rock pipit was near the beginning of the walk.<br \/>\n<span class=\"img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/rock_pipit_0107127307.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>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.<br \/>\n<span class=\"img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/great-Black_backed_gull_0107127366.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"423\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/great-Black_backed_gull_0107127388.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>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.<br \/>\n<span class=\"img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/kestrel_0107127428.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"366\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Back at home the garden continues to be a fox cub playground. Here&#8217;s rough-ear (first picture) and the shy young male from this evening.<br \/>\n<span class=\"img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fox_cub_rough_0107127492.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"img\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fox_cub_shy_boy_0107127541.jpg\" \/><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/natureblognetwork.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Nature Blog Network\" src=\"http:\/\/natureblognetwork.com\/button.php?u=Words\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<a title=\"site stats\" href=\"http:\/\/statcounter.com\/free-web-stats\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none;\" alt=\"site stats\" src=\"http:\/\/c.statcounter.com\/7187219\/0\/2c644058\/1\/\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<i>Camera 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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317","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=2317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}