{"id":5791,"date":"2023-01-19T10:22:44","date_gmt":"2023-01-19T10:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5791"},"modified":"2023-01-19T10:22:44","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T10:22:44","slug":"gulls-books-and-frozen-toes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5791","title":{"rendered":"Gulls, Books and Frozen Toes!!!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday a few of my birding pals and I were involved in a Gull Roosting Count<\/strong> for WWT Slimbridge.<\/strong><\/span> It was a beautiful late afternoon with the scrapes all iced of over. However, two hours standing around meant toes felt like ice I even had 3 pairs of socks on! At our station we only had 250 or so Gulls while just along from us they had well over a couple of thousand! We felt quite inadequate! Sadly we had to endure the Hunt galloping past – they will say it was trail hunting but the evidence suggested otherwise!<\/p>\n

In the evening to warm up my Book Club<\/strong><\/span> met. We were doing Books of My Life<\/strong> where each of us talked about books from being very young through our formative years and beyond. A super evening with a really diverse collection of books from our respective lives! I do enjoy our Book Club<\/strong> discussions!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday a few of my birding pals and I were involved in a Gull Roosting Count for WWT Slimbridge. It was a beautiful late afternoon with the scrapes all iced of over. However, two hours standing around meant toes felt … Continue reading →<\/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-5791","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-1vp","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5791","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=5791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5792,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5791\/revisions\/5792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}