{"id":2498,"date":"2013-01-16T00:01:59","date_gmt":"2013-01-16T00:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2498"},"modified":"2013-11-02T16:53:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-02T16:53:00","slug":"white-patch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/white-patch\/","title":{"rendered":"White Patch"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The cold nights are bringing clear skies in the morning (well, today they did), and the dawn views over Seven Sisters Country Park were beautiful.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/seven_sisters_1501134891.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>If you look closely you can see various gulls, cormorants and a heron in that shot. The cormorants were very active but I&#39;m trying hard not to post too many pictures of them. I am including this one though because it themes with a post from <a href=\"http:\/\/my.opera.com\/Words\/blog\/2013\/01\/08\/black-and-white\" target=\"_blank\">a week ago<\/a> and the condition of leucism.  In this case though the white patch and head aren&#39;t due to a genetic condition but are an indication that we are entering the cormorant&#39;s breeding season when they develop distinctive thigh patches.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/cormorant_1501134824.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Two more shots, both of a heron. The first one is interesting in giving an idea of scale. The heron is perched on the edge of the hedgerow which abuts the main road and I&#39;ve deliberately picked one which shows a passing vehicle.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/heron_1501134854.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The final shot  was taken just as the sun finally crept over the top of the Downs.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/heron_1501134960.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 shots taken with the Canon 7D and EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS 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":[449,1179],"class_list":["post-2498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-cormorant","tag-heron","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498","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=2498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}