{"id":5925,"date":"2023-04-06T13:37:26","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T13:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5925"},"modified":"2023-04-06T13:37:26","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T13:37:26","slug":"in-search-of-wheatears-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5925","title":{"rendered":"In Search of Wheatears!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The title says it all. I went looking for summer migrants this morning. At <strong>Splatt Bridge<\/strong> not too much to see certainly no migrants but 40 +\u00a0<span style=\"color: #808000;\"><strong>Curlew<\/strong><\/span>, <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Marsh Harrier<\/strong><\/span> and a couple of tumbling <span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>Ravens.<\/strong><\/span> I saw 40+ <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Sand Martins,<\/strong><\/span> a <span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><strong>Chiffchaff<\/strong> <\/span>and heard a <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Cetti&#8217;s Warbler<\/strong><\/span> up at the Sailing Lake. I then went off on my bike to <strong>Hock Cliff<\/strong> looking for <span style=\"color: #ffcc00;\"><strong>Wheatears<\/strong><\/span> I go regularly at this time of the year but apart for a soaking no luck! Pictures below are <span style=\"color: #ffcc00;\"><strong>Wheatears<\/strong><\/span> I photographed in <strong>Pembrokeshire<\/strong> last year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/P1020857.jpg?ssl=1\">\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=\"5926\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=5926\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/P1020857.jpg?fit=2317%2C2004&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2317,2004\" 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;1653786339&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;108&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0015625&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"P1020857\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/P1020857.jpg?fit=584%2C505&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5926\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/P1020857.jpg?resize=471%2C409&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"471\" height=\"409\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/P1020857.jpg?resize=1024%2C886&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/P1020857.jpg?resize=1536%2C1329&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/P1020857.jpg?resize=347%2C300&amp;ssl=1 347w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/P1020857.jpg?zoom=2&amp;resize=471%2C409&amp;ssl=1 942w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/P1020857.jpg?zoom=3&amp;resize=471%2C409&amp;ssl=1 1413w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 471px) 100vw, 471px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Long tiring rehearsal last night for our Community Play. Just about got my lines right but still need to work hard at learning the songs- although not sure if my voice enhances anything. We have near enough rehearsals every night before we open next Friday. There are still tickets if anyone still needs one.<\/p>\n<p>Busy weekend on the football front. Tomorrow a really tough game at <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Millwall<\/strong><\/span> just hope we can continue our good form. We are both going on <strong>Easter Monday<\/strong> to watch the game. Fingers crossed for both games <strong><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">COYH!!!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/P1020859.jpg?ssl=1\">\u00a0 \u00a0 <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"5928\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=5928\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/P1020859.jpg?fit=2227%2C1691&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2227,1691\" 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;1653786382&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;108&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0025&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"P1020859\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/P1020859.jpg?fit=584%2C444&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5928\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/P1020859.jpg?resize=579%2C444&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"579\" height=\"444\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The title says it all. I went looking for summer migrants this morning. At Splatt Bridge not too much to see certainly no migrants but 40 +\u00a0Curlew, Marsh Harrier and a couple of tumbling Ravens. I saw 40+ Sand Martins, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5925\">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-5925","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-1xz","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5925","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=5925"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5931,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5925\/revisions\/5931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}