{"id":25194,"date":"2016-07-18T23:16:25","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T22:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/?p=25194"},"modified":"2016-07-18T23:16:25","modified_gmt":"2016-07-18T22:16:25","slug":"gull-gets-a-fish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/gull-gets-a-fish\/","title":{"rendered":"Gull Gets a Fish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t claim any of the traditional spectaculars with this (kingfisher diving, osprey swooping), but a bird catching a fish is still worth an airing. Even if it&#8217;s a common herring gull and the fish looks remarkably like a goldfish. The sequence was taken last Friday at Falmer Pond.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_25199\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25199\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/gull_fish_1507163312_b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/gull_fish_1507163312_b.jpg\" alt=\"Herring gull catching goldfish at  Falmer Pond, East Sussex\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/gull_fish_1507163312_b.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/gull_fish_1507163312_b-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25199\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Herring gull catching goldfish at  Falmer Pond, East Sussex<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_25198\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25198\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/gull_fish_1507163317.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/gull_fish_1507163317.jpg\" alt=\"Herring gull catching goldfish at  Falmer Pond, East Sussex\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/gull_fish_1507163317.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/gull_fish_1507163317-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25198\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Splash landing back in the water<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_25197\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25197\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/gull_fish_1507163343.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/gull_fish_1507163343.jpg\" alt=\"Herring gull catching goldfish at  Falmer Pond, East Sussex\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/gull_fish_1507163343.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/gull_fish_1507163343-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25197\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taking it back to the bank<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_25196\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25196\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/gull_fish_1507163391.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/gull_fish_1507163391.jpg\" alt=\"Herring gull catching goldfish at  Falmer Pond, East Sussex\" width=\"1000\" height=\"666\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/gull_fish_1507163391.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/gull_fish_1507163391-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25196\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The fish makes a final vain attempt to escape<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_25195\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25195\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/gull_fish_1507163398.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/gull_fish_1507163398.jpg\" alt=\"Herring gull catching goldfish at  Falmer Pond, East Sussex\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/gull_fish_1507163398.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/gull_fish_1507163398-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25195\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The herring gull displays its catch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>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":"<p>I can&#8217;t claim any of the traditional spectaculars with this (kingfisher diving, osprey swooping), but a bird catching a fish is still worth an airing. Even if it&#8217;s a common herring gull and the fish looks remarkably like a goldfish. The sequence was taken last Friday at Falmer Pond. Camera note: all photos taken with [&hellip;]<\/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":[15,989],"tags":[172,1158],"class_list":["post-25194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-behaviour","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-fish","tag-herring-gull","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25194","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=25194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}