{"id":8098,"date":"2025-12-07T16:39:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T16:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8098"},"modified":"2025-12-07T16:39:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T16:39:00","slug":"now-we-can-concentrate-on-the-league-sic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8098","title":{"rendered":"Now we can concentrate on the League (sic!!!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Had an interesting Friday and Saturday up North. We visited one of our favourite places <strong>RSPB\u00a0 Leighton Moss<\/strong> in\u00a0 <strong>Lancashire<\/strong> Friday afternoon and Saturday morning. A few pictures below from the feeders and one of the Hides. I waded my way through the flooded paths to <strong>Lower Hide<\/strong> and was rewarded by seeing two <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>Otters<\/strong><\/span> and a couple of <span style=\"color: #ffcc99;\"><strong>Marsh Harriers.<\/strong><\/span> Even managed to see a <span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>Marsh Tit<\/strong><\/span> on the way. On Saturday I caught a fleeting\u00a0 glimpse of a<strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> Bearded Tit<\/span> <\/strong>(brilliant bird).<\/p>\n<p>Also upgrade my tripod as I had a few problems with the lightweight one I got earlier in the year. Really pleased with this one!<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday we went to <strong>Fleetwood<\/strong> (one of the few remaining grounds I haven&#8217;t visited watching the <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong>Mighty Hatters<\/strong><\/span>) for the FA Cup tie. It was certainly a low key affair reminiscent of our non-league days where away fans outnumbered home fans. Sadly we failed to take our many chances and then gave away two sloppy goals. Penalties is a cruel way to lose. 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We visited one of our favourite places RSPB\u00a0 Leighton Moss in\u00a0 Lancashire Friday afternoon and Saturday morning. A few pictures below from the feeders and one of the Hides. I waded my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8098\">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-8098","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-26C","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8098","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=8098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8105,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8098\/revisions\/8105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}