![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/cormorant_1512168983.jpg\")
<\/a><\/a><\/a>Being Sussex there are the inevitable herring gulls. This one is a juvenile coming in to land on the water.<\/p>\n Another regular is this greylag goose, one of the small number who remain at the pond all year round (we have quite a lot migrant greylags in the summer).<\/p>\n It can’t really be a Christmas photo shoot without a robin, and sure enough several were around and happy to pose.<\/p>\n The final sequence is the local heron, who excelled itself by eventually agreeing to perch on the No Fishing sign.<\/p>\n 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":" I’ve been dealing with other matters recently, but I was back out with the camera today. It was a Nature Photography trip, one of the annual Christmas events arranged at work. A small group of us went up to Falmer Pond… always a relatively safe location for being certain of having something to photograph. And […]<\/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":[980,989],"tags":[449,1159,1099,542,78],"class_list":["post-25532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-cormorant","tag-falmer","tag-grey-heron","tag-greylag-goose","tag-robin","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<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>