{"id":25532,"date":"2016-12-15T22:37:55","date_gmt":"2016-12-15T22:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/?p=25532"},"modified":"2016-12-15T22:37:55","modified_gmt":"2016-12-15T22:37:55","slug":"christmas-nature-photography-outing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/christmas-nature-photography-outing\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Nature Photography Outing"},"content":{"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 I have to say that the local inhabitants did us proud. As did the weather which started overcast, but gradually brightened up over the hour into a fine winter day.<\/p>\n

The star for me is always the cormorant, and while he wasn’t being terribly active he provided a few nice shots as he rested on the small island in the centre of the pond.<\/p>\n

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Cormorant at Falmer Pond, East Sussex<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Cormorant at Falmer Pond, East Sussex<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Cormorant at Falmer Pond, East Sussex<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Being Sussex there are the inevitable herring gulls. This one is a juvenile coming in to land on the water.<\/p>\n

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Juvenile herring gull at Falmer Pond, East Sussex<\/figcaption><\/figure>\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

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Greylag goose at Falmer Pond<\/figcaption><\/figure>\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

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Robin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The final sequence is the local heron, who excelled itself by eventually agreeing to perch on the No Fishing sign.<\/p>\n

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Heron on No Fishing sign at Falmer Pond, East Sussex<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Heron on No Fishing sign at Falmer Pond, East Sussex<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Heron on No Fishing sign at Falmer Pond, East Sussex<\/figcaption><\/figure>\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":"

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