{"id":27755,"date":"2021-08-17T15:42:44","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T14:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=27755"},"modified":"2021-08-17T15:42:44","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T14:42:44","slug":"abbey-fish-ponds-august-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=27755","title":{"rendered":"Abbey Fish Ponds \u2013 August 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/2021081609.jpg\" alt=\"Abbey Fish Ponds - August 2021\" \/><br \/>\nOn my monthly visit to the Abbey Fishponds Nature reserve in Abingdon, I did see Marjorie White, from a distance, cutting back some of the sedges. Marjorie was looking after this area long before the Earth Trust took over its management.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/2021081641.jpg\" alt=\"Abbey Fish Ponds - August 2021\" \/><br \/>\nToday was cloudy and there was not a lot of direct sunshine. I visited mid morning. This is the view over one basin of sedge and other water loving plants. There are lots of mauve fluffy flowers on long stems below the houses.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/2021081640.jpg\" alt=\"Abbey Fish Ponds - August 2021\" \/><br \/>\nThere is another meadow area, lower down, where far more varieties of wildflower thrive.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/2021081605.jpg\" alt=\"Abbey Fish Ponds - August 2021\" \/><br \/>\nIn terms of wildlife the most visible bird is the wood pigeon. I heard a robin chirping an alarm call from a tree, but there was none of the sing song heard earlier in the year.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/2021081630.jpg\" alt=\"Abbey Fish Ponds - August 2021\" \/><br \/>\nBlackberries and elderberries are out, as are the fruits of hawthorn and wild rose. Thistles are letting go clouds of fluffy seeds.\u00a0 There were quite a lot of bees, and fewer butterflies. Here is one butterfly on the mint like flowers in the marshy area.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/2021081603.jpg\" alt=\"Abbey Fish Ponds - August 2021\" \/><br \/>\nThere were plenty of caterpillars.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/2021081624.jpg\" alt=\"Abbey Fish Ponds - August 2021\" \/><br \/>\nOver twenty caterpillars were munching their way through the leaves and up into the flowers of this particular ragwort. I don&#8217;t know why it was singled out.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/2021081642.jpg\" alt=\"Abbey Fish Ponds - August 2021\" \/><br \/>\nFinally a view of the stream that bisects the nature reserve from top to bottom. It is only visible in short sections through all the overhanging plants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On my monthly visit to the Abbey Fishponds Nature reserve in Abingdon, I did see Marjorie White, from a distance, cutting back some of the sedges. Marjorie was looking after this area long before the Earth Trust took over its management. Today was cloudy and there was not a lot of direct sunshine. I visited [&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-27755","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\/27755","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=27755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}