{"id":143,"date":"2008-07-07T10:16:35","date_gmt":"2008-07-07T08:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/general\/nappies-and-lesser-grey-shrikes\/"},"modified":"2008-07-07T10:20:17","modified_gmt":"2008-07-07T08:20:17","slug":"nappies-and-lesser-grey-shrikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/birds-in-spain\/nappies-and-lesser-grey-shrikes\/","title":{"rendered":"Nappies and Lesser Grey Shrikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Steve<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/lgshrike.jpg\" alt=\"Lesser Grey Shrike photo\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo by Eva Solanes<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I have just finished reading your book (<strong><em>Flying over the Pyrenees<br \/>\nStanding on the Plains<\/em><\/strong>) and must let you know how much I enjoyed it.  I<br \/>\nfound it to be <strong>informative<\/strong>, <strong>interesting<\/strong> and very <strong>amusing<\/strong> in parts.  I<br \/>\nmust say I can empathize with you about the <strong>nappy incident<\/strong> as I had a<br \/>\nsimilar experience whilst on holiday on the beach in Puerto Pollensa<br \/>\nwhen our daughter got a touch (well a lot really) of Franco&#8217;s<br \/>\nrevenge and I had to bury the remains of her clothing on the beach, we<br \/>\nhave never been back there and I have always felt hugely embarrassed and<br \/>\nashamed as I know the Med is not tidal like the North Sea!<\/p>\n<p>You have found yourself a really <strong>lovely part of the world<\/strong> to migrate to,<br \/>\nmy husband and I <strong>enjoyed our day out with you immensely<\/strong> on our last visit to <strong>Spain<\/strong> and wish you every success with your book and look forward to reading the next one.<\/p>\n<p>Regards<\/p>\n<p>Kathleen<br \/>\nSCARBOROUGH UK<\/p>\n<p>What nappy incident is Kathleen refering to? And how can nappies be related to Lesser Grey Shrikes? The answers are in &#8220;<em>Flying over the Pyrenees, standing on the plains<\/em>&#8221; .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Steve Photo by Eva Solanes I have just finished reading your book (Flying over the Pyrenees Standing on the Plains) and must let you know how much I enjoyed it. I found it to be informative, interesting and very amusing in parts. I must say I can empathize with you about the nappy incident [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-in-spain"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7I752-2j","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}