{"id":24852,"date":"2020-06-11T21:47:30","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T20:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=24852"},"modified":"2020-06-11T21:47:30","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T20:47:30","slug":"barton-fields-in-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=24852","title":{"rendered":"Barton Fields in June"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20061115.jpg\" alt=\"Barton Fields in June\" \/><br \/>\nBarton Fields, cared for by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abnats.org.uk\/\">Abingdon Naturalists<\/a>, has lots of flowers during June &#8211; particularly on the side near the cycle path. <\/p>\n<p>There was a light rain today as we walked round, and meandered a little. The weather has cooled since the blue skies of April and May.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20061109a.jpg\" alt=\"Barton Fields in June\" \/><br \/>\nBramble flowers are a good food source for honey bees and bumble bees.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20061119.jpg\" alt=\"Barton Fields in June\" \/><br \/>\nThere is one area in particular where the soil has been prepared for wild flowers and where the colours are vibrant.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20061126.jpg\" alt=\"Barton Fields in June\" \/><br \/>\nElsewhere wild flowers grow in the grass.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20061114.jpg\" alt=\"Barton Fields in June\" \/><br \/>\nThere are so many different sorts of grasses and other plants.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20061101.jpg\" alt=\"Barton Fields in June\" \/><br \/>\nIn among the ground cover and hidden by the bushes are butterflies and birds. Some birds can be heard but not seen. Then occasionally you are rewarded with a clear view of a bird &#8211; in this case a pheasant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barton Fields, cared for by the Abingdon Naturalists, has lots of flowers during June &#8211; particularly on the side near the cycle path. There was a light rain today as we walked round, and meandered a little. The weather has cooled since the blue skies of April and May. Bramble flowers are a good food [&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-24852","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\/24852","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=24852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}