{"id":8289,"date":"2026-03-22T18:13:02","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T18:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8289"},"modified":"2026-03-22T18:13:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T18:13:02","slug":"cranes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8289","title":{"rendered":"Cranes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From our house I heard noisy <span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><strong>Common Cranes<\/strong> <\/span>calling. I went out looking for them this afternoon and a possible <span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>Hen Harrier.<\/strong><\/span> Sadly didn&#8217;t see either but saw a <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Heron<\/strong><\/span> swallowing a frog and a couple of <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>Buzzards.<\/strong><\/span> Hoping to go out a few times this week. The pictures of <span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><strong>Cranes<\/strong><\/span> below I took five years ago here in <strong>Frampton.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/P1020460.jpg?ssl=1\">\u00a0 <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8290\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=8290\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/P1020460.jpg?fit=2167%2C1385&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2167,1385\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;3.5&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;DMC-FZ330&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1636417946&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;108&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.004&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"P1020460\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/P1020460.jpg?fit=300%2C192&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/P1020460.jpg?fit=584%2C373&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-8290\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/P1020460.jpg?resize=540%2C351&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"351\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/crane-2.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8291\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=8291\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/crane-2.jpg?fit=1517%2C1136&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1517,1136\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;DMC-FZ330&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1681340265&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;108&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0015625&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"crane 2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/crane-2.jpg?fit=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/crane-2.jpg?fit=584%2C437&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-8291\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/crane-2.jpg?resize=547%2C414&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"547\" height=\"414\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From our house I heard noisy Common Cranes calling. I went out looking for them this afternoon and a possible Hen Harrier. Sadly didn&#8217;t see either but saw a Heron swallowing a frog and a couple of Buzzards. Hoping to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8289\">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-8289","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\/s2D5Gc-cranes","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8289","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=8289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8292,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8289\/revisions\/8292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}