{"id":23006,"date":"2019-08-14T23:08:52","date_gmt":"2019-08-14T22:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=23006"},"modified":"2019-08-14T23:08:52","modified_gmt":"2019-08-14T22:08:52","slug":"black-and-red-berries-on-the-ock-valley-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=23006","title":{"rendered":"Black and Red Berries on the Ock Valley Walk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19081402.jpg\" alt=\"Black and Red Berries\" \/><br \/>\nBerries can be rich with sugar and, at this time of year, provide a great source of food for birds. Birds have competition from humans when it comes to blackberries.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19081404.jpg\" alt=\"Black and Red Berries\" \/><br \/>\nHumans also go for elderberries although they don&#8217;t agree with everybody and are best made into drinks.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19081403.jpg\" alt=\"Black and Red Berries\" \/><br \/>\nNot many humans would try the red berries even if they came from the Guelder Rose.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19081405.jpg\" alt=\"Black and Red Berries\" \/><br \/>\nThe Mountain Ash berries will probably not be eaten by birds until they are ripe or food is more scarce.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19081406.jpg\" alt=\"Black and Red Berries\" \/><br \/>\nBirds must also, as needs must, eat the berries of Lords and Ladies to help disperse the seeds. They do not tempt many humans with their clammy poisonous look.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Berries can be rich with sugar and, at this time of year, provide a great source of food for birds. Birds have competition from humans when it comes to blackberries. Humans also go for elderberries although they don&#8217;t agree with everybody and are best made into drinks. Not many humans would try the red berries [&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-23006","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\/23006","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=23006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}