{"id":2275,"date":"2024-07-04T09:07:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T22:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/2275-gannet-bombers.html"},"modified":"2024-07-04T09:07:00","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T22:37:00","slug":"gannet-bombers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/2275-gannet-bombers.html","title":{"rendered":"Gannet Bombers"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:2943 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"580\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/64-_G2A9570-Enhanced-NR.jpg\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\n<br \/>\nThese two beautiful gannets flying overhead, alongside the famous Bull Rock, showcase their reputation of Ireland\u2019s most majestic seabird.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nWatching gannets feeding is amazing.  After a period of circling, a gannet will hover about 6m above the water and then suddenly drop into a vertical plummet, diving into the sea. What is especially spectacular is when a group of them all hit the water at the same time.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nHaving gannets fly above us was not so amazing. After a short while our boat had scored several hits of a different kind and I noticed at least one direct strike on Johns shoulder.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nMajestic they may be but it was now a good thing that we were all about to get into the water.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n#adventure #birds #freedom #gannets #gainead #morusbassana #ireland #kerry #bullrock #ocean #bunavalla #bealtra #seabirds<br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These two beautiful gannets flying overhead, alongside the famous Bull Rock, showcase their reputation of Ireland\u2019s most majestic seabird. Watching gannets feeding is amazing. After a period of circling, a gannet will hover about 6m above the water and then suddenly drop into a vertical plummet, diving into the sea. What is especially spectacular is &#8230; <a title=\"Gannet Bombers\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/2275-gannet-bombers.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about Gannet Bombers\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}