{"id":6924,"date":"2024-05-27T18:27:06","date_gmt":"2024-05-27T18:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6924"},"modified":"2024-05-27T18:27:06","modified_gmt":"2024-05-27T18:27:06","slug":"more-booming-heck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6924","title":{"rendered":"More Booming Heck!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just had a super weekend with our <strong>Exeter<\/strong> family. On the way down we stopped off at <strong>RSPB Ham Walls<\/strong>. A fantastic reserve with several booming <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>bitterns<\/strong><\/span>&#8211; never heard so many booms! Only managed to catch sight of one briefly. We saw a large <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>grass snake<\/strong><\/span> sunning itself, <span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>marsh harriers<\/strong> <\/span>aplenty and several <span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><strong>great white egrets<\/strong><\/span>. A few pictures below.<\/p>\n<p>My cricket tomorrow was called off when <strong>Staffordshire<\/strong> were unable to raise a team. I nearly went with the 4th team to <strong>Essex<\/strong> but I am now going even further with the 2nds to <strong>Carmarthen!<\/strong> Weather looks dodgy so may not get far!<\/p>\n<p>I even managed a ride this afternoon without getting wet!!! Hoping to get some rides in this week but forecast isn&#8217;t great.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/P1030905.jpg?ssl=1\">\u00a0 \u00a0<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"6926\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=6926\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/P1030905.jpg?fit=1519%2C1199&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1519,1199\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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On the way down we stopped off at RSPB Ham Walls. A fantastic reserve with several booming bitterns&#8211; never heard so many booms! Only managed to catch sight of one briefly. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6924\">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-6924","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-1NG","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6924","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=6924"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6930,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6924\/revisions\/6930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}