{"id":26694,"date":"2021-01-26T22:19:55","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T22:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=26694"},"modified":"2021-01-26T22:19:55","modified_gmt":"2021-01-26T22:19:55","slug":"ice-and-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=26694","title":{"rendered":"Ice and Birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/21012606.jpg\" alt=\"Ice and Birds\" \/><br \/>\nTemperatures have not gone much over freezing since Sunday&#8217;s snow. There are still places where it is icy and slippery under foot and where caution is required. I have had many unexpected slips on ice in the past, starting with a broken arm falling off my tricycle &#8211; aged four.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday we walked through the Abbey Gardens and along the Mill Stream and beyond.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/21012601.jpg\" alt=\"Ice and Birds\" \/><br \/>\nThere were two swans near the concrete bridge near the swimming pool.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/21012602.jpg\" alt=\"Ice and Birds\" \/><br \/>\nA heron was stood further along, partly hidden.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/21012603.jpg\" alt=\"Ice and Birds\" \/><br \/>\nAt Barton Fields there were lots of small birds on the bird feeders.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/21012604.jpg\" alt=\"Ice and Birds\" \/><br \/>\nRobins were singing along most of the route. One at Radley Lakes stayed long enough for a picture.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/21012607.jpg\" alt=\"Ice and Birds\" \/><br \/>\nMost of the birds were some way away at Thrupp Lake but the ice did mean the very muddy parts were not quite so muddy.<\/p>\n<p>Coming back along the cycle way, a red sign indicated Abingdon as 1.75 miles away. So that made yesterday&#8217;s walk about 4 miles and we got home without falling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Temperatures have not gone much over freezing since Sunday&#8217;s snow. There are still places where it is icy and slippery under foot and where caution is required. I have had many unexpected slips on ice in the past, starting with a broken arm falling off my tricycle &#8211; aged four. Yesterday we walked through the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168,173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-walk","category-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26694","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}