{"id":4554,"date":"2021-06-18T18:42:29","date_gmt":"2021-06-18T18:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4554"},"modified":"2021-06-18T18:42:29","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T18:42:29","slug":"avocet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4554","title":{"rendered":"Avocet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We saw a single<strong> Avocet<\/strong> today on the scrapes at <span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>Splatt Bridge.<\/strong><\/span> Apparently there were two adults and two chicks but we couldn&#8217;t see them. Interesting story about these birds from the <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>WWT<\/strong> <\/span>at <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Slimbridge<\/strong><\/span>. There were many birds and chicks out on the <span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><strong>Dumbles<\/strong> <\/span>at <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Slimbridge<\/strong> <\/span>when a Fox appeared.\u00a0 The birds shot for cover and many chicks were predated, one family made it to the river but were washed away by the incoming Tide. Martin from the <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>WWT<\/strong><\/span> thinks it is that family that has appeared here in <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Frampton<\/strong> <\/span>so it quite remarkable they survived to get here. Just hope they are not vulnerable where they are now.I am hoping the other adult and chicks were in the long grass nearby.<\/p>\n<p>Sitting down now waiting for the football!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We saw a single Avocet today on the scrapes at Splatt Bridge. Apparently there were two adults and two chicks but we couldn&#8217;t see them. Interesting story about these birds from the WWT at Slimbridge. There were many birds and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4554\">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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4554","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\/s2D5Gc-avocet","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4554","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=4554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4555,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4554\/revisions\/4555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}