{"id":2529,"date":"2013-02-20T23:02:44","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T23:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2529"},"modified":"2013-11-02T15:30:50","modified_gmt":"2013-11-02T15:30:50","slug":"swan-at-seven-sisters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/swan-at-seven-sisters\/","title":{"rendered":"Swan at Seven Sisters"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Another sequence of shots taken at Seven Sisters near Eastbourne of a mute swan, one of three that were paddling around in the narrow meanders.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/swan_2002132494.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>When I say &#39;paddling around&#39; they were also stretching their wings in the light breeze.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/swan_2002132512.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/swan_2002132521.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Plus a portrait shot. You can&#39;t really not take this sort of shot of a swan. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/swan_2002132585.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>A few other birds were around. I&#39;ll spare you another cormorant shot, but it was nice to see an elegant redshank on the waterside. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/redshank_2002132677.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The wigeons were flocking. It seems to be a good year for them along the South Coast.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/wigeon_2002132694.jpg' \/><\/span><span class=\"aligncenter\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/wigeon_20021326941.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Click for larger version<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>And late on today, a small group of little grebe appeared, lit by the setting sun as the moon rose in a rapidly deepening blue sky.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/little_grebe_2002132724.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/moon_2002132753.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/moon_20021327531.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Click for larger version<\/a><\/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":[980,1031,1004,989],"tags":[709,38,607,339,697],"class_list":["post-2529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-moon-landscape-2","category-south-downs-national-park-landscape-2","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-little-grebe","tag-moon","tag-redshank","tag-swan","tag-wigeon","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2529","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=2529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}