{"id":26793,"date":"2021-02-13T14:50:35","date_gmt":"2021-02-13T14:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=26793"},"modified":"2021-02-13T14:50:35","modified_gmt":"2021-02-13T14:50:35","slug":"abbey-fishponds-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=26793","title":{"rendered":"Abbey Fishponds &#8211; February"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/21021311.jpg\" alt=\"Abbey Fishponds\" \/><br \/>\nI returned to the Abbey Fishponds this morning for the monthly visit and it was below zero. Our garden thermometer showed -4 \u00b0C when I set out<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/21021204a.jpg\" alt=\"Abbey Fishponds\" \/><br \/>\nThe are plenty of birds and bird song despite the cold. They not only have the wild life area but there are also lots of surrounding gardens. I think this is a Dunnock (Hedge Sparrow) but am happy to be corrected.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/21021202.jpg\" alt=\"Abbey Fishponds\" \/><br \/>\nAn area of sedge appeared to have been cleared and piled up since my last visit. Small streams crossed the area.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/21021203b.jpg\" alt=\"Abbey Fishponds\" \/><br \/>\nCrows were looking for food in the ground where it was not too hard.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/21021309.jpg\" alt=\"Abbey Fishponds\" \/><br \/>\nMost of the ponds were frozen, and today the ice was solid enough to stand on.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/21021312a.jpg\" alt=\"Abbey Fishponds\" \/><br \/>\nThe ice had embedded leaves and twigs.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/21021301.jpg\" alt=\"Abbey Fishponds\" \/><br \/>\nThere were quite a few blackbirds together on the ice near the bottom entrance and some of the males were squabbling. Why don&#8217;t they conserve their energy? <\/p>\n<p>There were lots of chopped up trees and branches that could provide some cavities and shelter from the cold, possibly insects and food stores too.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/21021315.jpg\" alt=\"Abbey Fishponds\" \/><br \/>\nRobins fluff up their feathers to keep themselves warm. <\/p>\n<p>I was glad to get home with the modern convenience of central heating and warm up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I returned to the Abbey Fishponds this morning for the monthly visit and it was below zero. Our garden thermometer showed -4 \u00b0C when I set out The are plenty of birds and bird song despite the cold. They not only have the wild life area but there are also lots of surrounding gardens. I [&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-26793","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\/26793","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=26793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}