{"id":2470,"date":"2012-12-09T23:12:56","date_gmt":"2012-12-09T23:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2470"},"modified":"2013-11-02T19:09:55","modified_gmt":"2013-11-02T19:09:55","slug":"last-hour-at-rottingdean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/last-hour-at-rottingdean\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Hour at Rottingdean"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Just a few shots from the last hour of daylight at Rottingdean today. I had high hopes of a striking sunset, but as things turned out it didn&#39;t quite materialize. This was the best of it. As the sun dropped lower, the clouds rolled down to obscure it.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/sunset_0912127221.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>For the rest of the hour it was bird watching. I saw a lone fulmar fly overhead, but none are yet in their usual roosts along the cliffs. The rock pipits are there though. This one hopped down to the railing overlooking the beach.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/rock_pipit_0912127329.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The big plus was that the tide was out. This exposes the rocky shoreline which, with its dense cover of seaweed, is a fine feeding ground for the waders. I was pleased to see some oystercatchers among the herring gulls. I don&#39;t think I&#39;d realized before just how well camouflaged they are for rock pools.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/oystercatcher_0912127286.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The pick though was an egret, a bird that is anything but camouflaged in this environment. By the time I took this the light was on the bad side of poor, and photographing against the dark seaweed poses additional problems. The photo was taken at ISO 2500, which really is pushing the 7D to its limits.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/little_egret_0912127479.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 bird shots taken with the Canon 7D and EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens. The sunset was taken with the EF17-40mm f\/4L 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":[980,1044,1003,989],"tags":[702,453,516,1139],"class_list":["post-2470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-coastal","category-landscape-2","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-little-egret","tag-oystercatcher","tag-rock-pipit","tag-sunset","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2470","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=2470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}