{"id":785,"date":"2007-01-21T23:01:32","date_gmt":"2007-01-21T23:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/785"},"modified":"2013-11-27T23:01:59","modified_gmt":"2013-11-27T23:01:59","slug":"a-real-old-gull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/a-real-old-gull\/","title":{"rendered":"A real old gull"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

Still waiting for the fox, but while I'm sitting here I've been adding some photos to the Gulls Ahoy!<\/a> album. Among them is this old gull. At least I assume it's old, given that kind of weary, lived-in look it has.<\/p>\n

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I was checking to see just how old it might be, and got quite a surprise. The life-span of the Herring Gull is around 30-40 years! No wonder they get tetchy at times. The juveniles keep the brown flecked plumage for several years, before transforming into the white and grey livery.<\/p>\n

I also managed a workable shot of a crow in flight this weekend. Usually they are totally burnt out as the camera tries to deal with the black speck against the brightness of the sky. There are two flight shots in the Birds Birds Birds<\/a> album.<\/p>\n

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One more bird in flight today. The sparrowhawk was back, and late afternoon just as the light was going it flew more or less overhead. I wasn't expecting it, didn't get the camera settings anywhere near right, but with a great deal of playing around with the file I managed to salvage this shot. <\/p>\n

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And still <\/i>no sign of the dog fox…<\/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":[990,980],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bird-of-prey","category-birds-2","tag-birds","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