{"id":6853,"date":"2024-04-25T16:02:35","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T16:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6853"},"modified":"2024-04-25T16:02:35","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T16:02:35","slug":"birds-birds-and-more-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6853","title":{"rendered":"Birds, Birds and more Birds!!!!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A busy couple of days on the birding front. A lovely day yesterday at <strong>Wick Court<\/strong> with young people from <strong>Sutton.<\/strong> We saw a good selection of birds including a <strong>Blackcap.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Today it was the monthly survey out on the <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Severn<\/strong> <\/span>(the <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Bore<\/strong> <\/span>came up midway through). Highlights were <em><strong>Avocets, Lesser Whitethroat, Sedge Warbler, Marsh Harrier, Whimbrel\u00a0<\/strong> <\/em>and I was delighted to see my first <strong><em>Swifts<\/em><\/strong> of the year! I am full of admiration for <em><strong>Swifts<\/strong> <\/em>and I am always learning something new about these charismatic birds.<\/p>\n<p>Off to Story Tell at <strong>Wick<\/strong> and the rushing to the plate final of the quiz league.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Blackcap_1a_6996063938.jpg?ssl=1\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"6854\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=6854\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Blackcap_1a_6996063938.jpg?fit=1185%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1185,1024\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;5.6&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS 7D&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1336135191&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;300&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;200&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.004&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Blackcap_1a_(6996063938)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Blackcap_1a_6996063938.jpg?fit=584%2C505&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-6854\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Blackcap_1a_6996063938.jpg?resize=526%2C457&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"526\" height=\"457\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Blackcap_1a_6996063938.jpg?resize=347%2C300&amp;ssl=1 347w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Blackcap_1a_6996063938.jpg?zoom=2&amp;resize=526%2C457&amp;ssl=1 1052w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 526px) 100vw, 526px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A busy couple of days on the birding front. A lovely day yesterday at Wick Court with young people from Sutton. We saw a good selection of birds including a Blackcap. Today it was the monthly survey out on the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6853\">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_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-6853","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-1Mx","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6853","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=6853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6855,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6853\/revisions\/6855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}