{"id":2480,"date":"2012-12-21T23:12:26","date_gmt":"2012-12-21T23:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2480"},"modified":"2013-11-02T18:39:47","modified_gmt":"2013-11-02T18:39:47","slug":"cormorants-fight-for-a-fish-photo-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/cormorants-fight-for-a-fish-photo-special\/","title":{"rendered":"Cormorants Fight for a Fish (photo special)"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->A beautiful winter sun heralded the shortest day of the year (but not the &#39;end of the world&#39;). It was one of those mornings when you expect the unexpected. A pheasant, looking for a vantage point, perches on a roof.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/pheasant_roof_2112120401.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>A black-headed gull guards the &#39;No Fishing&#39; sign.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/gull_sign_2112120489.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>And then the fun begins. A small group of cormorants were fishing at the far end of the pond. Their target? The local carp.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/cormorant_fish_2112120417.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">A cormorant surfaces with fish<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/cormorant_fish_2112120423.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">A second cormorant spies easy pickings<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/cormorant_fish_2112120427.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">A tussle ensues<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/cormorant_fish_2112120430.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">The carp makes a break&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/cormorant_fish_2112120431.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">A cormorant lunges to retrieve it<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/cormorant_fish_2112120439.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">The end is inevitable<\/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":[378,879,449,207],"class_list":["post-2480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-black-headed-gull","tag-carp","tag-cormorant","tag-pheasant","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2480","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=2480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}