{"id":28460,"date":"2022-01-13T23:46:58","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T22:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=28460"},"modified":"2022-01-13T23:46:58","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T22:46:58","slug":"radley-lakes-january-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=28460","title":{"rendered":"Radley Lakes \u2013 January 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag22\/2022011316.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nI cycled along the Sustrans Route 5\u00a0 to Radley Lakes mid afternoon. In this view St David&#8217;s Meadow can be seen on the left with Thrupp Lake beyond.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag22\/2022011306.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThere seemed to be a lot of birds about round Thrupp Lake.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag22\/2022011312a.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThey included ducks, coots, moorhen, gulls,<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag22\/2022011315c.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nswans,<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag22\/2022011315a.jpg\" \/><br \/>\ngrebes,<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag22\/2022011315e.jpg\" \/><br \/>\ncormorants, and others.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag22\/2022011320.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nOn some smaller areas of water, and on some shallow ponds and lakes, ice had not melted all day.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag22\/2022011321.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThis view is across one of the lakes that was filled with ash from Didcot Power Station where trees have grown. There is a path all the way round and there is still wetland and shallow lakes or ponds at the far side near the railway and River Thames.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag22\/2022011325.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nAfter the sun went down, at 4:20, there were trails of birds in the sky heading north.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I cycled along the Sustrans Route 5\u00a0 to Radley Lakes mid afternoon. In this view St David&#8217;s Meadow can be seen on the left with Thrupp Lake beyond. There seemed to be a lot of birds about round Thrupp Lake. They included ducks, coots, moorhen, gulls, swans, grebes, cormorants, and others. On some smaller areas [&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-28460","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\/28460","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=28460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}