{"id":24410,"date":"2020-04-09T10:55:14","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T09:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=24410"},"modified":"2020-04-09T10:55:14","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T09:55:14","slug":"on-the-river-banks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=24410","title":{"rendered":"On the River Banks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20040901.jpg\" alt=\"On the River Banks\" \/><br \/>\nTony says &#8216;<i>Ten years ago in April you could find butterburs all along the Thames from Abingdon lock to the first gate. Today, with extended mooring and I suppose more walkers, there are just a few clumps of them. These wonderful pink flowers appear before the leaves which can be quite big and downy.&#8217;<\/i><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20040707.jpg\" alt=\"On the River Banks\" \/><br \/>\nWe saw these two grebes bringing twigs and making a nest in a place not very far from a road, and on the other side of a hedge and fence. They got vocal and agitated when a cycle passed by their chosen spot. It was not as secluded as it could have been.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20040717.jpg\" alt=\"On the River Banks\" \/><br \/>\nThe black headed gulls wheel and swoop for crumbs of bread thrown in their path by humans. It is like feeding time at the zoo at St Helen&#8217;s Wharf when it happens &#8211; which is less often during the lockdown.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20040604.jpg\" alt=\"On the River Banks\" \/><br \/>\nThis butterfly had settled near the River Ock on a nettle. Nettles are young and fresh at the moment. Butterflies normally flit away long before I get near with the camera. The information board at the start of the Ock Valley Walk has a picture of a Red Admiral, but this one looks like a Tortoiseshell. Somebody might know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tony says &#8216;Ten years ago in April you could find butterburs all along the Thames from Abingdon lock to the first gate. Today, with extended mooring and I suppose more walkers, there are just a few clumps of them. These wonderful pink flowers appear before the leaves which can be quite big and downy.&#8217; We [&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-24410","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\/24410","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=24410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}