{"id":8301,"date":"2026-03-26T22:47:55","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T22:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8301"},"modified":"2026-03-26T22:47:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T22:47:55","slug":"birds-and-stories-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8301","title":{"rendered":"Birds and Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"

Busy few days for me! It has been as the title suggests it has been plenty of stories and bird watching.<\/p>\n

Monday was story telling at a Care Home in Cheltenham<\/strong> which I hadn’t visited for a while. We all had a good time! Today was two lots of story telling. I was up near Pershore<\/strong> again working once more for Carters Construction-<\/strong> they have asked me for a couple more gigs in the near future. I then had my weekly session at Wick Court.<\/strong> I have next week off!<\/p>\n

It was a bitter wind yesterday at Wick Court<\/strong> when I took young people bird watching. They were full of enthusiasm.<\/p>\n

Today was the monthly bird survey and there was plenty of excitement. We had two pairs of very noisy Common Cranes,<\/strong> <\/span>Marsh Harriers<\/strong> <\/span>collecting nesting material, plenty of Curlews<\/strong><\/span> in the field and a Great White Egret<\/strong><\/span>. A couple of picture taken by one of my fellow surveyors below.<\/p>\n

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Busy few days for me! It has been as the title suggests it has been plenty of stories and bird watching. Monday was story telling at a Care Home in Cheltenham which I hadn’t visited for a while. We all … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8301","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-29T","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8301","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=8301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8305,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8301\/revisions\/8305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}