{"id":26446,"date":"2020-12-17T22:14:18","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T22:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=26446"},"modified":"2020-12-17T22:14:18","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T22:14:18","slug":"barton-fields-in-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=26446","title":{"rendered":"Barton Fields in December"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20121702.jpg\" alt=\"Barton Fields December\" \/><br \/>\nThe Thames Path below Barton Fields is very muddy on this sunny December day.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20121701a.jpg\" alt=\"Barton Fields December\" \/><br \/>\nMore birds are visible in the trees &#8211; now without foliage. They flit away as you approach and look shy.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20121704.jpg\" alt=\"Barton Fields December\" \/><br \/>\nLooking up from the bottom of the field, across through the willow herb and bare trees, the office buildings along Barton Lane are visible.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20121709.jpg\" alt=\"Barton Fields December\" \/><br \/>\nThe newly surfaced Sustrans cycle path allows cyclists a smoother ride.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20121710.jpg\" alt=\"Barton Fields December\" \/><br \/>\nSimilar surfaces have been introduced this year between Drayton and Abingdon.<\/p>\n<p>Through Abingdon Town Centre cyclists are guided by a couple of signs back towards the cycle route, but nobody has solved how to get the cycle way through a town centre as a joined up cycle way<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20121714.jpg\" alt=\"Barton Fields December\" \/><br \/>\nIn December there are very few flowers. Berries are getting eaten or are drying out.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20121717.jpg\" alt=\"Barton Fields December\" \/><br \/>\nAt the top end of Barton Fields &#8211; where wild flowers are such an feature in Spring and Summer, the grass is cut,  the small trees are bare, and piles of hay provide a place for animals to remain warm during the winter.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20121718.jpg\" alt=\"Barton Fields December\" \/><br \/>\nBrown has taken over from green as the main colour. <\/p>\n<p>Thankyou to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abnats.org.uk\/\">Abingdon Naturalist Trust<\/a> for the chance to enjoy the fields for a monthly exploration in 2020. Barton Fields provided a green space for people to walk and cycle during the lockdown. But at the same time more people have been walking over what is intended as a wildlife habitat. Mini thicket fence barriers have appeared at some junctions to keep people on the main paths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Thames Path below Barton Fields is very muddy on this sunny December day. More birds are visible in the trees &#8211; now without foliage. They flit away as you approach and look shy. Looking up from the bottom of the field, across through the willow herb and bare trees, the office buildings along Barton [&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-26446","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\/26446","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=26446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}