{"id":1644,"date":"2015-06-11T06:45:47","date_gmt":"2015-06-11T09:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/?p=1644"},"modified":"2015-06-11T06:46:23","modified_gmt":"2015-06-11T09:46:23","slug":"visit-to-bempton-cliffs-7-june-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/archives\/1644","title":{"rendered":"Visit to Bempton Cliffs, 7 June 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Gannet<\/a>

Gannet flying around the cliffs at Bempton<\/p><\/div>\n

Sunday 7 June, and with the Stockport RSPB we went on a visit to Bempton Cliffs, on the Yorkshire coast between Scarborough and Bridlington. This is a great place for certain sea birds, in particular gannets, puffins, guillemots, razorbills, fulmars and kittiwakes.<\/p>\n

\"Bempton<\/a>

Bempton is a superb place to see kittiwakes<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Very<\/a>

Very few razorbills – this was probably my best shot<\/p><\/div>\n

Mixed day for me, as I had taken delivery of my new canon 7D Mk II the day before, and had only a hazy idea of how to set it up. This is an immensely complicated matter, and very few photos came out acceptable, and those that did were more as a result of good luck than management.<\/p>\n

\"Fulmar,<\/a>

Fulmar, a reasonable shot although s\/he kept a little in the shade<\/p><\/div>\n

\"WE<\/a>

WE saw very few puffins on this trip, and mostly at a distance and in shaded crevices. Will serve as a register shot.<\/p><\/div>\n

Lovely day, very sunny – with additional exposure problems of white plumage against sky or water. Made me long for the simplicity of a bird perched on a branch, but hey, a photographer has to cope with all scenarios.<\/p>\n

\"I<\/a>

I had no major problems with focus and metering with this jackdaw, away from sky and sea<\/p><\/div>\n

On the way back we stopped briefly at another RSPB site, Fairborn Ings. Only there a short time, but long enough to get some fresh air and take my one good shot of the day: a mute swan in all its majesty. A couple of cormorants were displaying themselves nicely too.<\/p>\n

\"Majestic<\/a>

Majestic swan sailing down a stretch of water at Fairborn Ings<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Cormorant<\/a>

Cormorant drying out after a little light fishing<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sunday 7 June, and with the Stockport RSPB we went on a visit to Bempton Cliffs, on the Yorkshire coast between Scarborough and Bridlington. This is a great place for certain sea birds, in particular gannets, puffins, guillemots, razorbills, fulmars … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,32,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-for-fb","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1644"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1658,"href":"https:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1644\/revisions\/1658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}