{"id":2611,"date":"2013-05-25T00:05:41","date_gmt":"2013-05-24T23:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2611"},"modified":"2013-11-01T19:32:35","modified_gmt":"2013-11-01T18:32:35","slug":"lesser-black-backed-gull-and-fighting-fox-cubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/lesser-black-backed-gull-and-fighting-fox-cubs\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesser Black Backed Gull &#8211; and fighting fox cubs"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->I&#39;m so used to seeing herring gulls nesting on the roofs at work that I nearly missed this one. It was perched at the edge of one of the campus buildings, but if you look closely it doesn&#39;t sport the light grey of the herring gull. The black back gives part of its name, but the confirming feature is its yellow legs. This is a lesser black backed gull. They are not especially rare (in number they are slightly less common than herring gulls), but we don&#39;t see too many locally and so I put it down to a &#39;nice spot&#39;.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/lesser_black_backed_gull_2405138025.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Looking along the roof, I rated it somewhat more highly. That was one half of a nesting pair.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/lesser_black_backed_gull_2405138080.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/lesser_black_backed_gull_2405138049.jpg' \/><\/span> <br \/>I&#39;m going to be spoilt for choice once the chicks arrive. I&#39;m currently watching two herring gull nests, and now this one.<\/p>\n<p>That was really about it for the day, but I can&#39;t leave without including a couple of photos of the fox cubs. We&#39;re beginning to get to know them. There&#39;s a smaller one (very pretty and quite bold), and another (larger) cub who is something of a bully and tries to dominate the others. This one always starts the fights. He&#39;s on top in the first photo, and one the right in the second.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/fox_cub_2405137984.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/fox_cub_2405137987.jpg' \/><\/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: gulls taken with the Canon 7D and EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens. Fox cubs taken with the EF 24-105 F4L IS USM 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":[4,989],"tags":[1142,1128,847],"class_list":["post-2611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foxes","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-cub","tag-fox","tag-lesser-black-backed-gull","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2611","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=2611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}