{"id":2383,"date":"2012-09-06T00:09:05","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T23:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2383"},"modified":"2013-11-03T20:56:29","modified_gmt":"2013-11-03T20:56:29","slug":"little-egret-and-other-birds-at-seven-sisters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/little-egret-and-other-birds-at-seven-sisters\/","title":{"rendered":"Little Egret and other birds at Seven Sisters"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Another warm late summer day, and another trip out to Seven Sisters. It&#39;s funny how things change from one day to the next. Yesterday there was a noable absence of geese. Today, a large flock was happily meandering on the water.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/canada_geese_0509120603.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>A smaller group of dunlins was equally at home in the shallow pools.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/dunlin_0509120840.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The undoubted highlight of the afternoon was the little egrets, which were out in relatively large numbers. These are a few of the better shots.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/little_egret_0509120727.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/little_egret_0509120757.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/little_egret_0509120761.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/little_egret_0509120782.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/little_egret_0509120791.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>I grabbed this final shot of a bird as it flew over. I couldn&#39;t see immediately what it was, but it looked strange. No wonder. It&#39;s a juvenile herring gull with a plastic bag wrapped round its leg. This will certainly hamper it if it cannot get untangled. In many cases simple items of rubbish, from bags to bottles and drink cans can result in the painful death of wildlife. So keep it tidy, and take it home (it&#39;s never as heavy on the return journey, so there&#39;s no excuse).<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/gull_bag_0509120897.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.<\/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":[980,989],"tags":[801,898,1158,702,900],"class_list":["post-2383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-canada-goose","tag-dunlin","tag-herring-gull","tag-little-egret","tag-rubbish","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2383","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=2383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}