{"id":6398,"date":"2023-11-28T21:40:42","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T21:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6398"},"modified":"2023-11-28T21:44:51","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T21:44:51","slug":"winter-square-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6398","title":{"rendered":"Winter Square 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was sent to the north of the county for my second of my map squares where I record every bird I see. I get given 2 squares in November and another two in February. I do enjoy these tasks because they are usually places I wouldn&#8217;t go bird watching. Plenty of winter thrushes <span style=\"color: #808000;\"><strong>(Fieldfares <\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">and<\/span> <strong>Redwings)<\/strong><\/span>. A surprise was a pair of <span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>Goldcrests.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Stop Press:\u00a0<\/strong> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0The <span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>Great Northern Diver<\/strong><\/span> was released in the sea at <strong><span style=\"color: #339966;\">Clevedon<\/span><\/strong> last week! Good news!<\/p>\n<p>Pictures below are of a <span style=\"color: #808000;\"><strong>Fieldfare<\/strong><\/span> and a <strong><span style=\"color: #808000;\">Redwing<\/span><\/strong> I have taken in previous years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Redwing-2-06_02_12.jpg?ssl=1\">\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=\"4802\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=4802\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Redwing-2-06_02_12.jpg?fit=1600%2C924&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1600,924\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;A.PRENTICE&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;A.PRENTICE&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=\"Redwing 2 06_02_12\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Redwing-2-06_02_12.jpg?fit=584%2C337&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4802\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Redwing-2-06_02_12.jpg?resize=436%2C257&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"436\" height=\"257\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/fieldfare-1.jpg?ssl=1\">\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=\"6400\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=6400\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/fieldfare-1.jpg?fit=1724%2C1226&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1724,1226\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;5.6&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Barry.J.Pugh.&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS-1D Mark IV&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1359371529&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;B.J.Pugh   Photographer&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;700&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;640&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00625&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"fieldfare-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/fieldfare-1.jpg?fit=584%2C415&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6400\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/fieldfare-1.jpg?resize=367%2C265&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"367\" height=\"265\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was sent to the north of the county for my second of my map squares where I record every bird I see. I get given 2 squares in November and another two in February. I do enjoy these tasks &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6398\">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-6398","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-1Fc","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6398","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=6398"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6403,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6398\/revisions\/6403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}