{"id":7354,"date":"2024-12-03T21:33:34","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T21:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7354"},"modified":"2024-12-03T21:33:34","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T21:33:34","slug":"noisy-tawny-owls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7354","title":{"rendered":"Noisy Tawny Owls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is that time of year when the young <strong>Tawny Owls<\/strong> are either establishing new territories or the older ones are keeping their existing ones &#8211; so they are very noisy at the moment. Often hearing them at night around here. Here in the village we all knew a regular roosting tree that became a bit of a tourist attraction until the tree blew down. The picture below I took a few weeks before it happened.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/P1020613.jpg?ssl=1\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7355\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=7355\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/P1020613.jpg?fit=1810%2C1372&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1810,1372\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;DMC-FZ330&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1642553661&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"P1020613\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/P1020613.jpg?fit=584%2C443&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-7355\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/P1020613.jpg?resize=532%2C406&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"532\" height=\"406\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My gig for<strong> Upton St.Leonards WI<\/strong> went well yesterday- they have asked me back for a third time next year! I told a new version of the story of <span style=\"color: #33cccc;\"><strong>Merlin and the Dragons<\/strong> <\/span>&#8211; I am telling it again in the pub on Thursday night,<\/p>\n<p>On a poignant note I went for a walk with one of my old friends\u00a0 from school this morning remembering a dear friend of ours who we worked closely with. We told stories about her and we both laughed and cried. It helped us both come to terms with a really sad time. I had showed both of them the <strong>tawny<\/strong> in the picture on previous walks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is that time of year when the young Tawny Owls are either establishing new territories or the older ones are keeping their existing ones &#8211; so they are very noisy at the moment. 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