{"id":24837,"date":"2016-03-28T21:29:24","date_gmt":"2016-03-28T20:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/?p=24837"},"modified":"2016-03-28T21:29:24","modified_gmt":"2016-03-28T20:29:24","slug":"fighting-fulmars-at-rottingdean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/fighting-fulmars-at-rottingdean\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighting Fulmars at Rottingdean"},"content":{"rendered":"

Regular readers will have seen me post about the fulmar colony at Rottingdean many times before. Fulmars are often mistaken for gulls (when I was taking these shots several people pointed out the ‘nesting gulls’ to their partners\/parents\/children). All mistaken: Fulmars are ‘petrels’, related to the albatross (not gulls at all). Anyway, Friday was good and the fulmars got into full swing by mid-afternoon.<\/p>\n

Their main activity is flying along the cliffs and attempting to land…<\/p>\n

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Fulmar flying along at Rottingdean Cliffs, East Sussex<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Their other main activity is guarding their small rocky roost.<\/p>\n

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Fulmar nesting at Rottingdean Cliffs, East Sussex<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Combined, this means a lot of this… <\/p>\n

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Fulmar attempting to land but being seen off by the cackling incumbents.
<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I could have taken those three shots any time over the past few years (I have so many exactly like them). What made Friday special was a genuine on-the-wing spat between two of the birds.<\/p>\n

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Fulmar sparring at Rottingdean Cliffs, East Sussex<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Fulmars sparring – note the very flimsy legs (part of what makes landing so difficult)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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It’s more noise than serious fighting<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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And one of them finally dives away<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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":"

Regular readers will have seen me post about the fulmar colony at Rottingdean many times before. Fulmars are often mistaken for gulls (when I was taking these shots several people pointed out the ‘nesting gulls’ to their partners\/parents\/children). All mistaken: Fulmars are ‘petrels’, related to the albatross (not gulls at all). Anyway, Friday was good […]<\/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":[989],"tags":[508],"class_list":["post-24837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-fulmars","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24837","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=24837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}