{"id":5637,"date":"2022-11-17T17:07:57","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T17:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5637"},"modified":"2022-11-18T19:20:17","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T19:20:17","slug":"bikes-birds-and-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5637","title":{"rendered":"Bikes, Birds and Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Had an action packed week and been doing a variety of things.<\/p>\n<p>Every <strong>November<\/strong> and <strong>February<\/strong> we do a random OS map square for a bird survey &#8211; I did the first one this week the square we were allocated was near <strong>Hartpury College<\/strong>. It is always an adventure going to a place you don&#8217;t know and wouldn&#8217;t of considered birding. Saw over 30 species including plenty of <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Redwings<\/strong><\/span> and <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Fieldfares<\/strong> <\/span>&#8211; even spotted a <strong><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\">Kingfisher<\/span><\/strong> which I didn&#8217;t expect! The next square possibly this weekend will be near <strong>Staverton<\/strong> airport and the motorway!<\/p>\n<p>Had a delightful time at <strong>Wick Court<\/strong> yesterday taking young people from <strong>Wimbledon<\/strong> bird watching. We saw plenty and I was asked some really thoughtful questions and they\u00a0 tested my knowledge! We saw\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>20+ Meadow Pipits<\/strong><\/span> only been recorded a handful of times at <strong>Wick Court.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>i am looking forward to Story Telling with them later tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Been busy sorting out technical issues on my bikes- fingers crossed I have sorted at least one of them out!<\/p>\n<p>My football team have appointed a new manager today so fingers crossed he will carry on the progress of recent years!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Had an action packed week and been doing a variety of things. Every November and February we do a random OS map square for a bird survey &#8211; I did the first one this week the square we were allocated &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5637\">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-5637","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-1sV","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5637","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=5637"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5641,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5637\/revisions\/5641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}