{"id":8042,"date":"2025-10-24T13:42:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T13:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8042"},"modified":"2025-10-24T13:42:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T13:42:26","slug":"birds-and-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8042","title":{"rendered":"Birds and Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Had a good day bird watching with young people from <strong>Gloucester<\/strong> at <strong>Wick Court.<\/strong> We saw plenty and one girl was delighted that she spotted a wren on a post. I had\u00a0 a lovely\u00a0 story telling with them last night.<\/p>\n<p>Talking of stories The <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Two Severn Bores<\/strong><\/span> had a rehearsal last night of our new show last night for our next gig. We are now actively looking for new venues for this show (village halls, arts centres and pub)- any readers out there that can help.<\/p>\n<p>Had a a pleasant surprise yesterday when I saw a <span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><strong>goldcrest<\/strong><\/span> in the garden. We have also had active <span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>coal tits<\/strong> <\/span>in the garden in recent days. A picture below not mine I have tried unsuccessfully today!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Goldcrest.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8043\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=8043\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Goldcrest.jpg?fit=1800%2C1350&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1800,1350\" 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=\"Goldcrest\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Goldcrest.jpg?fit=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Goldcrest.jpg?fit=584%2C438&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-8043\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Goldcrest.jpg?resize=567%2C431&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"567\" height=\"431\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Had a good day bird watching with young people from Gloucester at Wick Court. We saw plenty and one girl was delighted that she spotted a wren on a post. I had\u00a0 a lovely\u00a0 story telling with them last night. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8042\">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-8042","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-25I","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8042","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=8042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8044,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8042\/revisions\/8044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}