{"id":24523,"date":"2020-04-29T12:49:08","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T11:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=24523"},"modified":"2020-04-29T12:49:08","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T11:49:08","slug":"abbey-fish-ponds-and-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=24523","title":{"rendered":"Abbey Fishponds and back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20042900.jpg\" alt=\"Abbey Fish Ponds and Back\" \/><br \/>\nIn Abingdon, there are two nature reserves looked after by the Earth Trust: Radley Lakes, and <a href=\"https:\/\/earthtrust.org.uk\/visit-us\/abbey-fishponds\/\">Abbey Fishponds<\/a>.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20042901.jpg\" alt=\"Abbey Fish Ponds and Back\" \/><br \/>\nFor our daily walk we went along the Radley Road, then through the Abbey Fishponds.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20042902.jpg\" alt=\"Abbey Fish Ponds and Back\" \/><br \/>\nVolunteers have laid wood chip over the path at one end.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20042910.jpg\" alt=\"Abbey Fish Ponds and Back\" \/><br \/>\nThey have also cut back the reeds. From the wetland fresh reeds grow.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20042903.jpg\" alt=\"Abbey Fish Ponds and Back\" \/><br \/>\nAt the cross paths, near the centre, we saw a gentleman coming the other way, and using the choreography learned during the lockdown, we walked up the earthwork, while he took the low path, and said hello as we passed.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20042905.jpg\" alt=\"Abbey Fish Ponds and Back\" \/><br \/>\nWe crossed Audlett Drive and then went round the Leisure Centre. It was closed but the side area was open. Some dog walkers were on the green, and one young person was using the skate park.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20042909.jpg\" alt=\"Abbey Fish Ponds and Back\" \/><br \/>\nThere is a narrow path to Barton Lane. My wife took this picture of me taking a picture through the tunnel of leaves. She liked the colours.<\/p>\n<p>We then walked by Sophos and Penlon. I had a word with somebody at a distance at Penlon about their activities, and I am hoping they will send me something for a future blog post. But they do have more important things to do.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20042904.jpg\" alt=\"Abbey Fish Ponds and Back\" \/><br \/>\nOutside the businesses on Barton Mill corner, on Audlett Drive, there was a rainbow.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20042907.jpg\" alt=\"Abbey Fish Ponds and Back\" \/><br \/>\nBack through the Abbey Grounds my wife got this picture. The thrush had been hopping about tapping the ground, and this is the moment the thrush got the worm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Abingdon, there are two nature reserves looked after by the Earth Trust: Radley Lakes, and Abbey Fishponds. For our daily walk we went along the Radley Road, then through the Abbey Fishponds. Volunteers have laid wood chip over the path at one end. They have also cut back the reeds. From the wetland fresh [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24523","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=24523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}