{"id":5406,"date":"2022-07-14T20:06:11","date_gmt":"2022-07-14T20:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5406"},"modified":"2022-07-14T20:06:11","modified_gmt":"2022-07-14T20:06:11","slug":"pretty-flamingo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5406","title":{"rendered":"Pretty Flamingo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thought the classic <strong>Manfred Mann<\/strong> song will do for tonight&#8217;s blog title! We have gone solo today for the first time as grandparents with our Grandson <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong>Owen.<\/strong> <\/span>His parents have gone to a wedding so we have had him all day and are keeping him until tomorrow morning. So we visited <strong>Slimbridge WWT<\/strong> and <strong><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">Owen<\/span><\/strong> was entranced by the birds especially the <strong>Flamingos<\/strong> &#8211; we have been indoctrinating him for a while now so he can say a few bird names -his favourite is <strong>Cuckoo!<\/strong>\u00a0 Pictures below of our <strong>Swan<\/strong> encounter and the <strong>Flamingo<\/strong> he studied for a while! Looking forward to taking him on more Grandparent outings!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/690f1288-55d2-4c90-a788-82af0d9c563b.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"5407\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=5407\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/690f1288-55d2-4c90-a788-82af0d9c563b.jpg?fit=480%2C640&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"480,640\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"690f1288-55d2-4c90-a788-82af0d9c563b\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/690f1288-55d2-4c90-a788-82af0d9c563b.jpg?fit=480%2C640&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5407\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/690f1288-55d2-4c90-a788-82af0d9c563b.jpg?resize=303%2C399&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"303\" height=\"399\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_1529-rotated.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"5408\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=5408\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_1529-rotated.jpg?fit=480%2C640&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"480,640\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_1529\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_1529-rotated.jpg?fit=480%2C640&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5408\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_1529.jpg?resize=318%2C419&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"318\" height=\"419\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nearly melted taking the young people from the <strong>Battersea<\/strong> area bird watching yesterday. I am Story Telling for them tomorrow morning after <strong><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">Owen<\/span> <\/strong>leaves!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thought the classic Manfred Mann song will do for tonight&#8217;s blog title! We have gone solo today for the first time as grandparents with our Grandson Owen. His parents have gone to a wedding so we have had him all &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5406\">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-5406","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-1pc","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5406","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=5406"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5410,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5406\/revisions\/5410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}