{"id":24320,"date":"2020-03-28T00:17:51","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T23:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=24320"},"modified":"2020-03-28T00:17:51","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T23:17:51","slug":"barton-fields-in-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=24320","title":{"rendered":"Barton Fields in March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/203032701.jpg\" alt=\"Barton Fields in March\" \/><br \/>\nThis is the view we have of St Helen&#8217;s Church from our back garden. The view will change and the steeple be mostly hidden as the leaves grow back.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/203032403.jpg\" alt=\"Barton Fields in March\" \/><br \/>\nYesterday we walked near Barton Fields and so I have some pictures of the green leaves reappearing in the nature reserve in March. The ground is drying out and green reeds are growing out from the ponds and marshy areas.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/203032405.jpg\" alt=\"Barton Fields in March\" \/><br \/>\nThe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abnats.org.uk\/\">Abingdon Naturalists<\/a> bring a sample of the pond life for the Abingdon Science Market on the Market Place, which could not happen this year.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/203032409.jpg\" alt=\"Barton Fields in March\" \/><br \/>\nA lot of the trees and bushes have their early leaves. This is the view where Barton Fields is bordered by the Sustrans cycle path.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/203032704.jpg\" alt=\"Barton Fields in March\" \/><br \/>\nThese are a few of the many millions of leaves appearing out from buds.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/203032414.jpg\" alt=\"Barton Fields in March\" \/><br \/>\nThe butterflies and birds were too far away to get a clear picture, but I did get close enough to these two insects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the view we have of St Helen&#8217;s Church from our back garden. The view will change and the steeple be mostly hidden as the leaves grow back. Yesterday we walked near Barton Fields and so I have some pictures of the green leaves reappearing in the nature reserve in March. The ground is [&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-24320","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\/24320","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=24320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}