{"id":24752,"date":"2020-05-27T22:16:20","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T21:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=24752"},"modified":"2020-05-27T22:16:20","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T21:16:20","slug":"birds-and-bees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=24752","title":{"rendered":"Birds and Bees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20052204.jpg\" alt=\"Birds and Bees\" \/><br \/>\nFlying must be easy when you are a bird. You just open your wings<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20052703.jpg\" alt=\"Birds and Bees\" \/><br \/>\nand glide.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20052704.jpg\" alt=\"Birds and Bees\" \/><br \/>\nBees need to buzz a lot more.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20052705.jpg\" alt=\"Birds and Bees\" \/><br \/>\nThey also need frequent nectar stops.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20052707.jpg\" alt=\"Birds and Bees\" \/><br \/>\nThe birds were seen by the Millstream in Abingdon.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20052710.jpg\" alt=\"Birds and Bees\" \/><br \/>\nThe bees were in Old Abbey House gardens this evening. This was part of a walk after work. <\/p>\n<p>Riding back from work at about 3:30pm I saw a long queue at the Drayton Recycling Centre. They are using the golf area next door to queue cars rather than the main road. The process is slower as only half the bays are in use for social distancing reasons. There is also a big demand for the dump after the shutdown for a couple of months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flying must be easy when you are a bird. You just open your wings and glide. Bees need to buzz a lot more. They also need frequent nectar stops. The birds were seen by the Millstream in Abingdon. The bees were in Old Abbey House gardens this evening. This was part of a walk after [&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-24752","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\/24752","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=24752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}