{"id":864,"date":"2007-06-11T00:06:15","date_gmt":"2007-06-10T23:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/864"},"modified":"2013-11-24T22:13:57","modified_gmt":"2013-11-24T22:13:57","slug":"a-trip-along-the-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/a-trip-along-the-coast\/","title":{"rendered":"A trip along the coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->We spent the day along the coast in Eastbourne today. It&#39;s a while since I&#39;ve driven that road (all of 20 miles) and I was shocked by the amount &#8211; and variety &#8211; of road kill along the way. At a minimal count (I was trying to keep my eyes on the road) I saw at least two foxes, a badger, a weasel or stoat, a male pheasant, plus numerous unidentifiable victims (but no doubt including rabbits and hedgehogs).<\/p>\n<p>The day started with a heavy sea mist, but did brighten up as the sun forced its way through.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/eastbourne_mist_1006075324.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">Eastbourne mist<\/span><\/p>\n<p>On a more positive note, I was surprised at the difference in the wildlife. Although the ubiquitous herring gulls were there in abundance, I also saw other varieties including this black-backed gull.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/gull_black_back_1006075386.jpg' \/><\/span><span class=\"aligncenter\">Black backed Gull<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/gull_1006075429.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">Herring Gull<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Among the other birds spotted were a second and third &#39;first&#39; for me: a pair of cormorants on distant rock, and a whitethroat.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/cormorant_1006075405.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">Cormorants in the distance<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/white_throat_1006075423.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">Common Whitethroat<\/span><\/p>\n<p>As well as the unexpected change in the variety of birds, I also spotted a cinnabar moth, and what I think is a Small Pearl Bordered Fritillary butterfly. Both new to me. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/cinnabar_moth_1006075369.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">Cinnabar moth (the best of several terrible shots)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/butterfly_small_pearl_bordered_fritillary1006075362.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">Small Pearl Bordered Fritillary<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I think the success of the day is telling me to get out and about a bit more. Mind you there&#39;s still plenty to see in the garden, so expect more from there over the next few days.<\/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":[980,992,1044,989],"tags":[33,233,297,24],"class_list":["post-864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-butterfly-insects-2","category-coastal","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-birds","tag-butterflies","tag-eastbourne","tag-wildlife-2","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864","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=864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}