{"id":5982,"date":"2023-05-03T16:42:06","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T16:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5982"},"modified":"2023-05-03T18:04:20","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T18:04:20","slug":"falco-subbuteo-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5982","title":{"rendered":"Falco Subbuteo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Falco Subbuteo<\/strong> is of course the Latin name for the <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>Hobby<\/strong><\/span>. It always tickles me to think the table football game of my youth was named after a bird!<\/p>\n<p>I have just come back from watching three birds flying acrobatically over <strong>Court Lake<\/strong> in <strong>Frampton.<\/strong> I have mentioned before how entranced I am watching this bird. Added bonus was a <span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><strong>Sparrowhawk,<\/strong> <\/span><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Buzzard<\/strong><\/span> and a <span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>Red Kite<\/strong><\/span> making it four different raptors in fifteen minutes! Also saw a <span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>Scream of Swifts<\/strong> <\/span>&#8211; my first ones of the year. The only picture I took is of the<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong> Ross&#8217;s Goose<\/strong> <\/span>which has been around for a while- see below.<\/p>\n<p>Book Club later in the pub to discuss <strong>Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Rosss-Goose.jpg?ssl=1\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \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=\"5984\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=5984\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Rosss-Goose.jpg?fit=1467%2C997&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1467,997\" 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;1683089850&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;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Ross&#8217;s Goose\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Rosss-Goose.jpg?fit=584%2C397&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5984\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Rosss-Goose.jpg?resize=423%2C293&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"423\" height=\"293\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Falco Subbuteo is of course the Latin name for the Hobby. It always tickles me to think the table football game of my youth was named after a bird! I have just come back from watching three birds flying acrobatically &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5982\">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-5982","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-1yu","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5982","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=5982"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5986,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5982\/revisions\/5986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}