{"id":28067,"date":"2021-10-21T19:38:28","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T18:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=28067"},"modified":"2021-10-21T19:38:28","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T18:38:28","slug":"abbey-fish-ponds-october-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=28067","title":{"rendered":"Abbey Fish Ponds &#8211; October 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/2021101901.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nAt the Abbey Fish Ponds, volunteers were at work. Some had cut sedges and reeds.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/2021101917.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nIn places this had revealed ponds that were not visible before. There are water channels that run across the ground, not bounded by banks.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/2021101916.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThat is in addition to the main stream that runs within banks.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/2021101903.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nVolunteers were also cutting down trees and from them a long hedge like barrier was being made.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/2021101922.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThere were not as many insects to be seen as last month. There were more birds singing and flying about, but they are difficult to picture clearly.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/2021101918.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nLarge mammals are easier to photograph. Here is Sciurus carolinensis<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/2021101921.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nHere is another &#8211; its Latin name is Felis catus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the Abbey Fish Ponds, volunteers were at work. Some had cut sedges and reeds. In places this had revealed ponds that were not visible before. There are water channels that run across the ground, not bounded by banks. That is in addition to the main stream that runs within banks. Volunteers were also cutting [&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-28067","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\/28067","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=28067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}