{"id":8356,"date":"2026-05-03T20:27:59","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T20:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8356"},"modified":"2026-05-03T20:27:59","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T20:27:59","slug":"dorset-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8356","title":{"rendered":"Dorset Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a busy week storytelling we went away in our wonderful campervan <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong>&#8220;Cedric&#8221;<\/strong> <\/span>to have a couple of days in one of favourite places near Wareham. We try and time it to when the <span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><strong>Dartford Warblers<\/strong><\/span> are showing at <strong>Arne<\/strong> (a <strong>RSPB<\/strong> reserve). I was lucky to get one of my best views ever (sadly unable to get it on camera). Another highlight was seeing an <span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>Osprey<\/strong><\/span> dive and catch a fish- magical!<\/p>\n<p>A few pictures below. <span style=\"color: #33cccc;\"><strong>Little Egret<\/strong><\/span>, <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong>Stonechat,<\/strong><\/span> <span style=\"color: #cc99ff;\"><strong>Linnet,<\/strong><\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff99cc;\"><strong>Guillemots<\/strong><\/span> and some curious <span style=\"color: #99ccff;\"><strong>Deer.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/P1050078-scaled.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8357\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=8357\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/P1050078-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1736&amp;ssl=1\" 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campervan &#8220;Cedric&#8221; to have a couple of days in one of favourite places near Wareham. We try and time it to when the Dartford Warblers are showing at Arne &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8356\">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-8356","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-2aM","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8356","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=8356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8363,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8356\/revisions\/8363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}