{"id":7725,"date":"2025-04-25T19:40:02","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T19:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7725"},"modified":"2025-04-25T19:40:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T19:40:15","slug":"stories-friends-and-dorset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7725","title":{"rendered":"Stories, Friends and Dorset!!!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once more -where has he been? Well Wednesday was my usual volunteering day at <strong>Wick Court<\/strong> taking young people bird watching. A great day and all the groups of children got good views of a <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>kestrel<\/strong><\/span> hovering. One group got a female <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>blackcap<\/strong> <\/span>while another had the male!<\/p>\n<p>Thursday we were up with the larks so to speak because I was storytelling near <strong>Marlborough<\/strong>. <strong>Clare<\/strong> came with me and we popped in on an old friend who has been ill. We then went on down to <strong>Dorset<\/strong> visiting <strong>Arne<\/strong> and <strong>Durlston Country Park<\/strong>, both favourite haunts of ours.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow is an another start as I travel with trepidation to watch the <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong>Mighty Hatters<\/strong><\/span> in yet another must win game.<\/p>\n<p>Below are a few bird pictures from the last couple of days more to follow! I have loads of story telling pictures from yesterday to add but need time to edit the downloads!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/P1040507.jpg?ssl=1\">\u00a0 <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7728\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=7728\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/P1040507.jpg?fit=1192%2C1111&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1192,1111\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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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;1745536697&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=\"P1040493\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/P1040493.jpg?fit=584%2C529&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7729\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/P1040493.jpg?resize=584%2C531&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/P1040493.jpg?resize=300%2C272&amp;ssl=1 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Well Wednesday was my usual volunteering day at Wick Court taking young people bird watching. A great day and all the groups of children got good views of a kestrel hovering. One group got &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7725\">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-7725","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-20B","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7725","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=7725"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7731,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7725\/revisions\/7731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}