{"id":24508,"date":"2016-01-15T23:34:37","date_gmt":"2016-01-15T23:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/?p=24508"},"modified":"2016-01-15T23:34:37","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T23:34:37","slug":"turnstones-at-brighton-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/turnstones-at-brighton-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"Turnstones at Brighton Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"

Finally some beautiful winter sunshine. Sure it’s cold, but dry, clear days like today are perfect. And I was lucky enough to be down at Brighton seafront at lunchtime. I wandered down to the east of Brighton Pier.<\/p>\n

\"Brighton<\/a>
Brighton Pier<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It was quiet there and I spotted a small group of turnstones enjoying the sun. They were very relaxed, mainly ignoring the occasional passer-by.<\/p>\n

\"Turnstones<\/a>
Turnstones at Brighton Beach<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Turnstones<\/a>
Turnstones at Brighton Beach<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Turnstones<\/a>
Turnstones at Brighton Beach<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Eventually they made a move and headed off to better feeding grounds along the coast. They were a delight to see, and so unexpected.<\/p>\n

\"Turnstones<\/a>
Turnstones in flight along the coast<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The final shot today is the remains of the Brighton Wheel. The visitor capsules have been removed, and presumably the main structure will soon be coming down. A great shame. The wheel was a great populist attraction, quite unlike the corporate monolith going up further along at the West Pier site. <\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>
The Brighton Wheel after the viewing buggies had been removed.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Camera note: all photos taken with the Canon 7D Mark II and EF70-300mm 4.5-5.6 DO IS lens.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Finally some beautiful winter sunshine. Sure it’s cold, but dry, clear days like today are perfect. And I was lucky enough to be down at Brighton seafront at lunchtime. I wandered down to the east of Brighton Pier. It was quiet there and I spotted a small group of turnstones enjoying the sun. They were […]<\/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":[1044,989],"tags":[247,978,1212,1220],"class_list":["post-24508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coastal","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-beach","tag-brighton-pier","tag-brighton-wheel","tag-turnstones","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24508","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=24508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}