{"id":6916,"date":"2024-05-20T20:45:03","date_gmt":"2024-05-20T20:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6916"},"modified":"2024-05-20T20:45:03","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T20:45:03","slug":"story-telling-and-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6916","title":{"rendered":"Story Telling and Birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A real varied day that started with <strong>Story Telling<\/strong> at <strong>Bromsberrow Primary School<\/strong> in the North of the county. I had a\u00a0 lovely time and I had super responsive audience.<\/p>\n<p>I followed up with some hacking back of a tall bush in the garden that even with a long pole was awkward . Arms were aching afterwards!<\/p>\n<p>Tonight at <strong>Splatt Bridge<\/strong> I heard and then saw my first cuckoo of the year (picture of one below &#8211; not mine!) Also saw a <strong>Cetti&#8217;s Warbler<\/strong> you normally only hear them! Finally there was a lot of <strong>Redshank<\/strong> activity over at the scrapes (another picture that isn&#8217;t mine below!)<\/p>\n<p>Cricket for me tomorrow against a strong <strong>Wales<\/strong> team!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/cuckpp.jpg?ssl=1\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"6917\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=6917\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/cuckpp.jpg?fit=560%2C560&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"560,560\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;9&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;EDMUND FELLOWES\/British Trust fo&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS-1D Mark IV&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1394548504&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;700&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;800&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.003125&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;001485-Cuckoo-Fellowes&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"001485-Cuckoo-Fellowes\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/cuckpp.jpg?fit=560%2C560&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-6917\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/cuckpp.jpg?resize=528%2C528&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"528\" height=\"528\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/cuckpp.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/cuckpp.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/cuckpp.jpg?w=560&amp;ssl=1 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 528px) 100vw, 528px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"6918\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=6918\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/redshank.jpg?fit=2491%2C1662&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2491,1662\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Shutterstock&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Common redshank or redshank (Tringa totanus) searching for food in the wetlands in sunrise.&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;Copyright (c) 2022 Henri_Lehtola\/Shutterstock.  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I had a\u00a0 lovely time and I had super responsive audience. I followed up with some hacking back of a tall &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6916\">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-6916","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-1Ny","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6916","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=6916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6919,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6916\/revisions\/6919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}