{"id":8528,"date":"2026-08-02T19:48:37","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T19:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8528"},"modified":"2026-08-02T19:48:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T19:48:37","slug":"flamingo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8528","title":{"rendered":"Flamingo?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bird Survey on Thursday was interesting &#8211; we had some good sightings-<strong><span style=\"color: #ffcc00;\">Yellow Wagtails,<\/span> <span style=\"color: #800000;\">Whinchat<\/span>, <span style=\"color: #339966;\">Curlew<\/span>, and <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Great White Egret<\/span><\/strong> among the highlights. One surprise was a <span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><strong>Greater Flamingo<\/strong><\/span> on the mud of the river. Apparently it had escaped from <strong>Birdland<\/strong> in the North of the County.<\/p>\n<p>Told some stories including some old favourites at <strong>Wick Court<\/strong> on Thursday night to old friends from <strong>Liverpool.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I have managed to cover a few miles on the bike in the last few days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bird Survey on Thursday was interesting &#8211; we had some good sightings-Yellow Wagtails, Whinchat, Curlew, and Great White Egret among the highlights. One surprise was a Greater Flamingo on the mud of the river. Apparently it had escaped from Birdland &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8528\">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_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-8528","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-flamingo","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8528","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=8528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8529,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8528\/revisions\/8529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}