{"id":686,"date":"2006-07-24T23:07:55","date_gmt":"2006-07-24T22:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/686"},"modified":"2013-12-03T21:34:43","modified_gmt":"2013-12-03T21:34:43","slug":"george-the-sea-gull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/george-the-sea-gull\/","title":{"rendered":"George the Sea Gull"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->I was wandering around one of the buildings at work today and stumbled upon a Herring Gull chick drinking from a plastic water container. It was unusually tolerant of my presence, and was limping somewhat. While I was snapping away, one of the guys from the building came over and &#8211; seeing my camera &#8211; said. &quot;So George is famous then.&quot; It turns out he must had fallen from a roof about two weeks ago, and although he can get around, no-one had been able to persuade him to fly. The best anyone had seen to date was a brief flap while he hopped down or up the steps. The locals &#8211; in between flapping their arms madly at him to encourage him to take off &#8211; are all feeding him, and making sure he&#39;s safe. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/gull_george_240706002sm.jpg\" alt=\"gull_george_240706002sm\" width=\"550\" height=\"412\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18622\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/gull_george_240706002sm.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/gull_george_240706002sm-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"aligncenter\">George at the water bowl<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/gull_george_240706004sm.jpg\" alt=\"gull_george_240706004sm\" width=\"550\" height=\"412\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18623\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/gull_george_240706004sm.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/gull_george_240706004sm-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"aligncenter\">George on the grass<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/gull_george_240706010sm.jpg\" alt=\"gull_george_240706010sm\" width=\"550\" height=\"412\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18624\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/gull_george_240706010sm.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/gull_george_240706010sm-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"aligncenter\">You can see the injured leg in this shot<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Just after that final photo, George decided that enough was enough and to my astonishment launched himself skyward. So he can fly after all and I suppose I&#39;m the sole witness of his maiden flight (and unforgiveably didn&#39;t have the camera ready). I&#39;ll check back at the building tomorrow to see if he&#39;s still around. Either way&#8230; George, you&#39;re now famous!<\/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":[989],"tags":[33,49],"class_list":["post-686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-birds","tag-gulls","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686","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=686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}