{"id":4966,"date":"2022-01-02T21:13:21","date_gmt":"2022-01-02T21:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4966"},"modified":"2022-01-02T21:13:21","modified_gmt":"2022-01-02T21:13:21","slug":"egrets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4966","title":{"rendered":"Egrets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I mentioned yesterday I saw a <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Great White Egret<\/strong><\/span> here in <strong>Frampton<\/strong>. We have had three types of <strong>Egret<\/strong> in the area over the last week. <span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>Little<\/strong><\/span>, <span style=\"color: #00ccff;\"><strong>Cattle\u00a0<\/strong><\/span> and <span style=\"color: #cc99ff;\"><strong>Great White.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #339966;\">Little Egrets<\/span> <\/strong>are now common throughout the country although I remember 30 odd years ago there were a rare sight. <span style=\"color: #00ccff;\"><strong>Cattle Egrets<\/strong><\/span> are gradually appearing over the last five to ten years and <span style=\"color: #cc99ff;\"><strong>Great Whites<\/strong><\/span> are now breeding in the South West.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of pictures I took yesterday. <strong><span style=\"color: #cc99ff;\">The Great White<\/span><\/strong> is on the ground and the <strong><span style=\"color: #339966;\">Little Egret<\/span> <\/strong>is in flight.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/P1020532.jpg?ssl=1\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \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=\"4967\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=4967\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/P1020532.jpg?fit=1669%2C1251&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1669,1251\" 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;1640994352&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;108&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;200&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.008&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"P1020532\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/P1020532.jpg?fit=584%2C438&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-4967\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/P1020532.jpg?resize=348%2C264&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"348\" height=\"264\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/P1020537.jpg?ssl=1\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4968\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=4968\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/P1020537.jpg?fit=1318%2C1229&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1318,1229\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;DMC-FZ330&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1640994683&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;64.6&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.005&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"P1020537\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/P1020537.jpg?fit=584%2C545&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-4968\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/P1020537.jpg?resize=327%2C306&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"327\" height=\"306\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/P1020537.jpg?resize=300%2C280&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/P1020537.jpg?resize=1024%2C955&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/P1020537.jpg?resize=768%2C716&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/P1020537.jpg?resize=322%2C300&amp;ssl=1 322w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/P1020537.jpg?w=1318&amp;ssl=1 1318w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/P1020537.jpg?w=1168&amp;ssl=1 1168w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 327px) 100vw, 327px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I mentioned yesterday I saw a Great White Egret here in Frampton. We have had three types of Egret in the area over the last week. Little, Cattle\u00a0 and Great White. Little Egrets are now common throughout the country although &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4966\">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_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4966","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-egrets","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4966","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=4966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4969,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4966\/revisions\/4969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}