{"id":7306,"date":"2024-11-10T15:18:55","date_gmt":"2024-11-10T15:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7306"},"modified":"2024-11-10T15:19:39","modified_gmt":"2024-11-10T15:19:39","slug":"winter-bird-square","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7306","title":{"rendered":"Winter Bird Square"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think I have mentioned before that we are giving two map squares in different parts of the county every November to do a bird survey. This year we were given <strong>Soudley Ponds<\/strong> in the <strong>Forest of Dean.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We had a brilliant start down by the actual ponds where we had 24 <span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><strong>mandarin ducks<\/strong><\/span> and 4 <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>nuthatches!<\/strong> <\/span>Sadly there wasn&#8217;t that many birds later but we had a super walk through the last of the <strong>Autumn Colours.<\/strong> A few pictures below.<\/p>\n<p>We are off to see the film <strong>Small Things Like These<\/strong> based on the book by <strong>Claire Keegan<\/strong> which we read for book club.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/P1040141-scaled.jpg?ssl=1\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7307\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=7307\" 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This year we were given Soudley Ponds in the Forest of Dean.\u00a0 We had &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7306\">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-7306","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-1TQ","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7306","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=7306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7313,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7306\/revisions\/7313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}