{"id":2518,"date":"2013-02-06T23:02:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-06T23:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2518"},"modified":"2013-11-02T15:49:54","modified_gmt":"2013-11-02T15:49:54","slug":"early-morning-at-seven-sisters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/early-morning-at-seven-sisters\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Morning at Seven Sisters"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Today was mainly dull, but for the early birds there was a beautiful glow of sunrise before the clouds set in. I was fortunate to catch the light  as it topped the Downs this morning at Seven Sisters, just outside Eastbourne. Here are a few shots taken over a brief 10 minute spell.<\/p>\n<p>The wigeon are certainly making the south coast their home at the moment. Here&#39;s a small group in flight over the local farmland.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/wigeon_0602139429.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The Canada geese are there too&#8230; this one is making a short diversion past the local pub (definitely closed at this time of day).<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/canada_goose_0602139446.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>A little egret stretches its wings with a lazy low flight along the water.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/egret_0602139403.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>A little grebe pauses between dives&#8230;<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/little_grebe_0602139406.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>And all the time, a heron watches from the bank.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/heron_0602139474.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>A nice start to the day!<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":[801,1179,702,709,697],"class_list":["post-2518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-canada-goose","tag-heron","tag-little-egret","tag-little-grebe","tag-wigeon","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518","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=2518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}