{"id":24488,"date":"2016-01-13T23:49:45","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T23:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/?p=24488"},"modified":"2016-01-14T22:40:44","modified_gmt":"2016-01-14T22:40:44","slug":"kestrel-at-seaford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/kestrel-at-seaford\/","title":{"rendered":"Kestrel at Seaford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a very fallow period, things looked up today. Ok, I pushed them a bit by going in to work via Falmer. Sunrise is just about at the right time for me now to get morning views like this as the sun rises behind the South Downs.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_24491\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24491\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/sunrise_1301169021-2.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/sunrise_1301169021-2.jpg\" alt=\"Sunrise at Falmer Village, East Sussex\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24491\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/sunrise_1301169021-2.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/sunrise_1301169021-2-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24491\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sunrise at Falmer Village, East Sussex<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I even chanced upon a cormorant as it was flying in&#8230;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_24492\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24492\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/cormorant_1301169120.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/cormorant_1301169120.jpg\" alt=\"Cormorant at Falmer, East Sussex\" width=\"600\" height=\"899\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24492\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/cormorant_1301169120.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/cormorant_1301169120-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24492\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cormorant at Falmer, East Sussex<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The main sequence, however, came later in the day as I headed over to Eastbourne at lunchtime. The drive was punctuated by the sight of kestrels hovering over hedgerows. In most cases I had no choice but to continue driving, but I spotted a female kestrel as I entered Seaford. I parked up, and took this sequence.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_24500\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24500\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/kestrel_1301169145.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/kestrel_1301169145.jpg\" alt=\"Female kestrel at Seaford, East Sussex\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/kestrel_1301169145.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/kestrel_1301169145-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24500\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Female kestrel perching on a shed at Seaford, East Sussex<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_24501\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24501\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/kestrel_1301169186.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/kestrel_1301169186.jpg\" alt=\"Female kestrel at Seaford, East Sussex\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24501\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/kestrel_1301169186.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/kestrel_1301169186-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24501\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Female kestrel at Seaford, East Sussex<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_24502\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24502\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/kestrel_1301169163-1.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/kestrel_1301169163-1.jpg\" alt=\"Female kestrel at Seaford, East Sussex\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24502\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/kestrel_1301169163-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/kestrel_1301169163-1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24502\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Female kestrel at Seaford, East Sussex<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Hopefully I&#8217;ll get more opportunities (helped if the weather stays fine), but it&#8217;s nice to be getting some shots again.<\/p>\n<p><em>Camera note: all photos taken with the Canon 7D  Mark II and EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L IS II USM  lens.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a very fallow period, things looked up today. Ok, I pushed them a bit by going in to work via Falmer. Sunrise is just about at the right time for me now to get morning views like this as the sun rises behind the South Downs. I even chanced upon a cormorant as it [&hellip;]<\/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":[990,1219,989,3],"tags":[449,1152],"class_list":["post-24488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bird-of-prey","category-kestrel","category-water-birds-birds-2","category-wildlife","tag-cormorant","tag-kestrel","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24488","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=24488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}