{"id":23284,"date":"2015-04-16T23:57:44","date_gmt":"2015-04-16T22:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/?p=23284"},"modified":"2015-04-16T23:57:44","modified_gmt":"2015-04-16T22:57:44","slug":"mirror-mirror-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/mirror-mirror-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Mirror Mirror"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been a good day today, and I have lots of images that I could show but I will probably hold some back for the weekend. The pride of place – and major part of the blog – goes to one of the many herring gulls that nest on the roofs of the University of Brighton campus at Falmer.<\/p>\n

A number of the buildings have reflective film along the windows to keep out glare and deflect heat. These act as mirrors as this fine gull discovered today.<\/p>\n

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The gull was fascinated by its reflection<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"Herring<\/a>
Between pecking it would pause and try to out-stare its adversary<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"Herring<\/a>
… or just glower.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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I left the gull to it after watching for 10 minutes or so. I presume it eventually gave up. The rest of today’s photos were picked up on my travels during the day, but the first does have an echo of a reflection in it.<\/p>\n

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Duck sleeping on Falmer Pond<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"rat\"<\/a>
Cute little rat up on its hind legs to get a better view.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"dunnock\"<\/a>
A pair of dunnocks on picturesque tree<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"fulmar\"<\/a>
Fulmar at Rottingdean<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And last, but not least… a badger.<\/p>\n

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Badger trampling the plants!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Camera note: all photos taken with the Canon 7D Mark II and EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L IS II USM lens,except the badger which was photographed with the EF 200mm f\/2.8L II USM lens.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s been a good day today, and I have lots of images that I could show but I will probably hold some back for the weekend. The pride of place – and major part of the blog – goes to one of the many herring gulls that nest on the roofs of the University of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[994,980,781,989],"tags":[160,1160,163,1158,390,1183],"class_list":["post-23284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-badger-wildlife","category-birds-2","category-rats","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-badger-2","tag-duck","tag-dunnock","tag-herring-gull","tag-mirror","tag-rat","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