{"id":3779,"date":"2020-11-08T18:54:46","date_gmt":"2020-11-08T18:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3779"},"modified":"2020-11-08T18:54:46","modified_gmt":"2020-11-08T18:54:46","slug":"how-to-be-a-bad-birdwatcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3779","title":{"rendered":"How To Be A Bad Birdwatcher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our book club&#8217;s choice\u00a0for this month is the <em><strong>Simon Barnes<\/strong> <\/em>book in the title above. As we are always on <em><strong>Zoom<\/strong><\/em> these days so for this Wednesday&#8217;s meeting\u00a0\u00a0I am planning my background-it will either be full of bird pictures or my extensive Bird Book Collection! I have a good number of bird books because I usually get a guide for birds in the areas we go on holiday so my collection has grown (although we won&#8217;t be doing that for a while!) I am also going to have bird song playing in the background and probably have a couple of my bird puppets handy. Hope it makes my fellow bookies smile! Well it seems like everybody else plans their backgrounds!<\/p>\n<p>We are lucky to live where we do because we have a good mix of habitats so there is always something to see. I am hoping to see if the <span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>Starling \u00a0Murmuration<\/strong> <\/span>has grown tomorrow. I am hoping the <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Short Eared Owl<\/strong> <\/span>reappears soon -I will of course mention it when I see one! On today&#8217;s walk we saw <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>Meadow Pipits<\/strong> <\/span>and a <span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Volery<\/strong> <\/span>of <span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><strong>Wagtails<\/strong> <\/span>(hope you are impressed by the collective noun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our book club&#8217;s choice\u00a0for this month is the Simon Barnes book in the title above. As we are always on Zoom these days so for this Wednesday&#8217;s meeting\u00a0\u00a0I am planning my background-it will either be full of bird pictures or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3779\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2D5Gc-YX","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3780,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3779\/revisions\/3780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}