{"id":6813,"date":"2024-04-05T20:59:25","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T20:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6813"},"modified":"2024-04-05T21:03:44","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T21:03:44","slug":"good-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6813","title":{"rendered":"Good News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In today’s paper there was a report on Bittern<\/strong><\/span> numbers were up by 24%<\/span> and 234<\/span> males were heard booming across the country last year. My blog of a few days ago mentioned I heard one booming here in Frampton<\/strong> (also heard one in the village during lock down). I have seen one occasionally over the years here and a handful times elsewhere. It is a change to hear good news on environmental front! Not my picture above – I’ve never photographed a Bittern-<\/span><\/strong> years I ago I sat with a professional photographer in a hide at Leighton Moss<\/strong> in Lancashire<\/strong> as one flew in front of us- he clicked away and showed me the one that was likely to be published- it was fantastic!<\/p>\n

I got on the bike today and surprisingly missed the rain! Hard work against the wind though!<\/p>\n

Fingers crossed for the football tomorrow!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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