{"id":5021,"date":"2022-01-30T19:39:16","date_gmt":"2022-01-30T19:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5021"},"modified":"2022-01-30T19:39:16","modified_gmt":"2022-01-30T19:39:16","slug":"big-garden-birdwatch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5021","title":{"rendered":"Big Garden Birdwatch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know many of you will have tackled the <strong>RSPB Birdwatch<\/strong> this weekend. We record the birds in our garden weekly for the <strong>BTO<\/strong> but today was slightly different because we focused for a whole hour rather than recording incidentally. We were pleased to record 15 different species, one surprise for us was a <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>House Sparrow<\/strong><\/span> although a common garden bird we only see them infrequently in our garden even though there are plenty just around the corner from our house. Talking of watching birds I took part in our monthly survey on the <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Severn<\/span> <\/strong>last week &#8211; we had a good morning one special highlight was seeing three <strong><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\">Hares,<\/span><\/strong> this is the third month running we have seen a <strong><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\">Hare<\/span> <\/strong>on our patch after years of seeing none.<\/p>\n<p>Football yesterday was an entertaining hard fought game ending goalless but it was not one for the purist as a strong wind stopped both teams playing fluent football. Still reassuring the <strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Mighty Hatters<\/span><\/strong> can hold their own against the top sides.<\/p>\n<p>Today I went for a rehearsal for my friend Brian&#8217;s play <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Between Severn Tides<\/strong><\/span> I missed last week. (the play is inspired <strong>By Under Milk Wood<\/strong>). It a darkly comic tale and will be performed in April (details in future blogs).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know many of you will have tackled the RSPB Birdwatch this weekend. We record the birds in our garden weekly for the BTO but today was slightly different because we focused for a whole hour rather than recording incidentally. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5021\">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-5021","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-1iZ","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5021","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=5021"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5023,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5021\/revisions\/5023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}