{"id":27947,"date":"2021-09-21T17:56:34","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T16:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=27947"},"modified":"2021-09-21T17:56:34","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T16:56:34","slug":"abbey-fish-ponds-september-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=27947","title":{"rendered":"Abbey Fish Ponds &#8211; September 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/20211516.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nWhen I visited the Abbey Fish Ponds nature reserve last week there were 20 volunteers from the Earth Trust cutting back grass, and some of the summer growth, using scythes, clippers, and rakes. At lunch time they all gathered for sandwiches.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/20211502.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nIt was a sunny day and, as I passed the ponds that are closest to the path, I could see more dragon flies than on any previous monthly visit.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/20211501.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThey did not settle for long.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/20211526.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nA pair were flying quite slowly together linked from tail to head.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"chasing dragonflies\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LXKPFAGsk1I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nThis video shows an attempt to chase a flitting dragonfly with a camera phone.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/20211535.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThere were still a lot of blackberries and other fruit such as these haws next to the spider&#8217;s web.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/20211506.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe stream, through the reserve, is culverted for a short way before emerging, under the Radley Road, into the reserve.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/20211534.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe stream is wider where it leaves the reserve, under Audlett Drive, having been joined by at least one spring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I visited the Abbey Fish Ponds nature reserve last week there were 20 volunteers from the Earth Trust cutting back grass, and some of the summer growth, using scythes, clippers, and rakes. At lunch time they all gathered for sandwiches. It was a sunny day and, as I passed the ponds that are closest [&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-27947","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\/27947","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=27947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}