{"id":7868,"date":"2025-07-12T15:47:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T15:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7868"},"modified":"2025-07-12T15:47:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T15:47:04","slug":"swift-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7868","title":{"rendered":"Swift!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went for &#8220;hot&#8221; cycle ride on Thursday around the <strong>North Cotswolds<\/strong> with a friend. It was a beautiful ride with some steep hills to negotiate. When we stopped at <strong>Guiting Power<\/strong> for our obligatory coffee and cake we were delighted to have many screaming <strong><span style=\"color: #cc99ff;\">swifts<\/span><\/strong> shooting over our heads. The group word for <span style=\"color: #cc99ff;\"><strong>swifts<\/strong><\/span> is a scream which is apt! They are incredible birds and the young people I take birdwatching are always amazed when I tell them they spend their lives in the air (apart from nesting) Picture at the bottom of the blog- not mine they are difficult to photograph- although if I had a camera on Thursday I might of got one!<\/p>\n<p>Busy relearning stories today when not watching the cricket!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Swift20NE20Wildlife20Photography20480px.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7869\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=7869\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Swift20NE20Wildlife20Photography20480px.jpg?fit=480%2C352&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"480,352\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Swift(NEWildlifePhotography)480px\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Swift20NE20Wildlife20Photography20480px.jpg?fit=480%2C352&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-7869\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Swift20NE20Wildlife20Photography20480px.jpg?resize=584%2C435&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"435\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went for &#8220;hot&#8221; cycle ride on Thursday around the North Cotswolds with a friend. It was a beautiful ride with some steep hills to negotiate. 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