{"id":7966,"date":"2025-09-07T17:56:02","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T17:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7966"},"modified":"2025-09-07T17:56:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T17:56:02","slug":"an-evening-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7966","title":{"rendered":"An Evening Walk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a lovely walk after story telling on Friday night. Only saw one other person but saw plenty of birds. About 20 <strong><span style=\"color: #ff99cc;\">long -tailed tits<\/span> <\/strong>in a mixed flock of <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>blue tits<\/strong> <\/span>and amazingly at least 6 c<strong><span style=\"color: #339966;\">hiffchaffs<\/span><\/strong>. There were <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>swallows<\/strong><\/span> darting over the lake and I saw a <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>common sandpiper<\/strong> <\/span>flying low over the water. Also heard a <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>kingfisher\u00a0<\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">b<\/span><\/span>ut didn&#8217;t see it and a very noisy <span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>cetti&#8217;s warbler.<\/strong><\/span> Really good for the soul! Some pictures below but not mine!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Chiffchaff-24-David-Dillon-600x400-1.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7967\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=7967\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Chiffchaff-24-David-Dillon-600x400-1.jpg?fit=600%2C400&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"600,400\" 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;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Chiffchaff-24-David-Dillon-600&#215;400\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Chiffchaff-24-David-Dillon-600x400-1.jpg?fit=584%2C389&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-7967\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Chiffchaff-24-David-Dillon-600x400-1.jpg?resize=440%2C299&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" height=\"299\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0Chiffchaff<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Long-Tailed-Tit.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7968\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=7968\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Long-Tailed-Tit.jpg?fit=1150%2C711&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1150,711\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Tony Davison&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS-1D X&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1425203665&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;1000&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;800&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.005&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Long Tailed Tit\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Long-Tailed-Tit.jpg?fit=584%2C361&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-7968\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Long-Tailed-Tit.jpg?resize=524%2C331&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"524\" height=\"331\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff99cc;\">\u00a0 Long-tailed tit<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Common-sandpiper.webp?ssl=1\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7969\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=7969\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Common-sandpiper.webp?fit=2500%2C1660&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2500,1660\" 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;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Common sandpiper\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Common-sandpiper.webp?fit=584%2C388&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-7969\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Common-sandpiper.webp?resize=546%2C369&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"546\" height=\"369\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong> Common sandpiper<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a lovely walk after story telling on Friday night. Only saw one other person but saw plenty of birds. About 20 long -tailed tits in a mixed flock of blue tits and amazingly at least 6 chiffchaffs. There &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7966\">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-7966","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-24u","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7966","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=7966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7970,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7966\/revisions\/7970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}