{"id":18671,"date":"2017-06-01T02:14:09","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T01:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=18671"},"modified":"2017-06-01T02:14:09","modified_gmt":"2017-06-01T01:14:09","slug":"scythes-not-strimmers-at-the-abbey-fishponds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=18671","title":{"rendered":"Scythes not strimmers at the Abbey Fishponds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17060104.jpg\" alt=\"Abbey Fishponds\" \/><br \/>\nThe Abbey Fishponds is a small wetland nature reserve that runs between Radley Road and Audlett Drive in Abingdon, with houses either side.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17060105.jpg\" alt=\"Abbey Fishponds\" \/><br \/>\nThe wetland part is made of ponds, seasonal ponds, sedges, reedbeds, and a brook that runs from end to end.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17060102.jpg\" alt=\"Abbey Fishponds\" \/><br \/>\nThe Earth Trust is now responsable for the reserve, having taken over from BBOWT a couple of years ago. This week The Earth Trust roving Wildlife Wednesday event took place at the Abbey Fishponds. It was a chance to look for local wildlife and have lots of outdoor fun.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17060101.jpg\" alt=\"Abbey Fishponds\" \/><br \/>\nIn the centre of the site is an embankment, known locally as &#8216;Daisy Bank&#8217;, which gave the idea that these could have been Abbey Fishponds.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17060103.jpg\" alt=\"Abbey Fishponds\" \/><br \/>\nOn the first Saturday of the month a team of volunteers help to look after the area, and I believe they will be out from about 10:30, although you can check if interested. They will be using scythes not strimmers.<\/p>\n<p>By the way June 1st is the start of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxfordfestivalofnature.org\/\">Oxford Festival of Nature<\/a>. And the Worldwide City Daily Photo have their <a href=\"http:\/\/cdpbthemeday.blogspot.co.uk\/2017\/05\/june-2017-theme-day-gallery-nature.html\">June 1st Theme Day on Nature<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Abbey Fishponds is a small wetland nature reserve that runs between Radley Road and Audlett Drive in Abingdon, with houses either side. The wetland part is made of ponds, seasonal ponds, sedges, reedbeds, and a brook that runs from end to end. The Earth Trust is now responsable for the reserve, having taken over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}