{"id":4927,"date":"2021-12-12T20:28:19","date_gmt":"2021-12-12T20:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4927"},"modified":"2021-12-12T20:28:19","modified_gmt":"2021-12-12T20:28:19","slug":"out-on-the-weekend-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4927","title":{"rendered":"Out On The Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Classic <strong>Neil Young<\/strong> for today&#8217;s title as it sums up my busy weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I watched an absorbing game of football where the <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Mighty Hatters<\/strong><\/span> more than held their own against top of the table Fulham. certainly cheered me up after the gloom from the cricket!<\/p>\n<p>Today we went for a drizzly windswept ride around the <strong>Longney Loop<\/strong>-good to get out! Later had a good go at picking up leaves. I love trees and they are great for our world but my goodness picking up the leaves is hard work and never ending!<\/p>\n<p>Good news our male <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Blackcap<\/strong> <\/span>is back in the garden. I went looking for <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Starling Murmurations<\/strong><\/span> towards dusk. Only saw a few groups of a couple of hundred but did see a\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>Barn Owl<\/strong> <\/span>the pictures below are a bit fuzzy ( light was fading) but better than nothing!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/P1020507.jpg?ssl=1\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4928\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=4928\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/P1020507.jpg?fit=2108%2C1065&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2108,1065\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;DMC-FZ330&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1639286533&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;102.2&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;3200&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.016666666666667&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"P1020507\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/P1020507.jpg?fit=584%2C295&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-4928\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/P1020507.jpg?resize=419%2C220&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"419\" height=\"220\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/P1020506.jpg?ssl=1\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4929\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=4929\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/P1020506.jpg?fit=2205%2C1557&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2205,1557\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;DMC-FZ330&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1639286530&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;81.3&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;1600&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.008&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"P1020506\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/P1020506.jpg?fit=584%2C412&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-4929\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/P1020506.jpg?resize=398%2C286&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"398\" height=\"286\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Classic Neil Young for today&#8217;s title as it sums up my busy weekend. Yesterday I watched an absorbing game of football where the Mighty Hatters more than held their own against top of the table Fulham. certainly cheered me up &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4927\">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-4927","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-1ht","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4927","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=4927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4930,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4927\/revisions\/4930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}