{"id":1171,"date":"2010-09-18T08:12:19","date_gmt":"2010-09-18T08:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=1171"},"modified":"2011-01-08T22:59:29","modified_gmt":"2011-01-08T22:59:29","slug":"nearly-the-right-time-swansea-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/?p=1171","title":{"rendered":"Nearly the right time &#8211; Swansea Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1172\" title=\"Cormorant drying it wings after a heavy rain shower, Swansea Bay\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Swansea-Bay20100913_NCD8709.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Swansea-Bay20100913_NCD8709.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Swansea-Bay20100913_NCD8709-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Swansea-Bay20100913_NCD8709-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I visited Blackpill the other day, unfortunately during a heavy rainstorm so the light was useless, to see what birds were about. I got there a little too late, so I had to photograph from the path instead of from the beach which I prefer to do. Even though it is still a bit early for the over wintering birds to be present in great numbers, a fair selection of birds were present. Most were not really suitable for photography in the dull light, but I made a few images anyway.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1175\" title=\"Oystercatcher flock, Swansea Bay\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Swansea-Bay20100913_NCD8737.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The oystercatcher flock at Blackpill is one of the most approachable I have come across. They will be much more tolerant by the end of the winter, but standing\/sitting still and letting the tide push them up towards your position is always a good technique to get close.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1176\" title=\"Black headed Gull, Swansea Bay\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Swansea-Bay20100913_NCD8796.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Quite a few species of bird were present with Black headed, Herring, Black backed and lesser black backed gulls mixing with Crows, Knot, Sanderling, Ringed Plover, Cormorant, Oystercatcher and even 6 Brent Geese. A bird watcher next to me also saw a Wheatear and Pied Wagtail. Not bad for 20 minutes in the pouring rain. As winter approaches, it will only get better I hope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I visited Blackpill the other day, unfortunately during a heavy rainstorm so the light was useless, to see what birds were about. I got there a little too late, so&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1171"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1355,"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171\/revisions\/1355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}