{"id":2508,"date":"2013-01-25T23:01:40","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T23:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2508"},"modified":"2013-11-02T16:19:02","modified_gmt":"2013-11-02T16:19:02","slug":"the-other-side-of-the-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/the-other-side-of-the-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"The Other Side of the Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

I spent most of today on 'the other side of the hill', by which I mean Eastbourne which is a 20 mile drive from here along the coast. There was no sign of any snow at all. Driving across the downs, the hills were still heavily laden with snow for about 6 or 7 miles. Then absolutely no sign of any snow whatsoever. <\/p>\n

I stopped off at one of my regular haunts, Seven Sisters (near Seaford and about 2\/3rds of the way to Eastbourne) where I got some pictures of a cormorant (can't get away from them), a swan (always nice to see), and a lapwing (always very nice to see even from a distance).
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At lunchtime, in Eastbourne, I ventured out to the local hills to the start of the South Downs Way<\/a>, a 100 mile trail from Eastbourne to Winchester.
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There wasn't too much to see (overcast, cold day), but it looks promising as an area to explore over the coming months when I can. It did provide my first sighting for some considerable time of a redwing, as well as a female kestrel out hunting.
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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":[990,980,989],"tags":[449,1152,500,395,938,339],"class_list":["post-2508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bird-of-prey","category-birds-2","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-cormorant","tag-kestrel","tag-lapwing","tag-redwing","tag-south-downs-way","tag-swan","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t