{"id":27479,"date":"2021-07-13T22:33:17","date_gmt":"2021-07-13T21:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=27479"},"modified":"2021-07-13T22:33:17","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T21:33:17","slug":"abbey-fish-ponds-july-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=27479","title":{"rendered":"Abbey Fish Ponds &#8211; July 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/2021071313.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThis morning, I climbed a mound with a view across wild flowers and grasses, fenland, and houses\u00a0at the Abbey Fish Ponds. The sky was cloudy with small patches of blue. Later on in the day the clouds broke up and the sunshine got much brighter.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/2021071318.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nWhere the grasses and meadow flowers grow are brown meadow butterflies. They flutter about. One comes one way, and meets another. They loop round each other, and then carry on.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/2021071317a.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nSometimes they land long enough for a picture.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/2021071319.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThere must be millions of flowers and insects at the Abbey Fish Ponds in July.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/2021071320.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nBirds are well hidden. They can be heard in the bushes but are difficult to see, apart from blackbirds<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/2021071301.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nand wood pigeons.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/2021071305a.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nSome Abbey Fish Ponds remain as ponds all through the summer.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/2021071306a.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nOthers get overgrown with tall reeds and sedges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, I climbed a mound with a view across wild flowers and grasses, fenland, and houses\u00a0at the Abbey Fish Ponds. The sky was cloudy with small patches of blue. Later on in the day the clouds broke up and the sunshine got much brighter. Where the grasses and meadow flowers grow are brown meadow [&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-27479","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\/27479","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=27479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}