{"id":28788,"date":"2022-04-18T10:05:42","date_gmt":"2022-04-18T09:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=28788"},"modified":"2022-04-18T10:05:42","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T09:05:42","slug":"radley-lakes-april-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=28788","title":{"rendered":"Radley Lakes – April 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThe pink had gone from the sky and the sun was a half-circle as I walked up to Thrupp Lake this morning.
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\nThe sun cast a reflection on the water. Birds mounted from a tree root island and then settled back down.
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\nSwans and geese came over to check whether I was the sort of human that brought them food and then decided I was a dead loss and drifted off again chewing water weeds instead.
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\nI walked round to the other side of the lake; the camera started showing Err-20 and so I took the battery out for a few seconds to fix the problem. Two black-headed gulls were socialising on a fence and flew away as I approached. A cormorant or gannet or something dartlike flew over the lake but the camera would not focus and it joined other large dark birds in a feathery tree by the far bank.
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\nTwo Canada geese drifted over towards the reeds.
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\nThen around by the little beach, by the main entrance, I started to see quite a few tufted ducks and a couple of grebes.
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\nOn the road by Thrupp Lake, I saw a man putting together a Jodrell Bank style camera with a huge tripod. I then walked around by the more out of the way lakes. There were three Muntjac deer on the far bank. As I left I saw the man with the large camera. He probably got much clearer images, if he even bothered with Muntjac – could have been after something far more exotic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The pink had gone from the sky and the sun was a half-circle as I walked up to Thrupp Lake this morning. The sun cast a reflection on the water. Birds mounted from a tree root island and then settled back down. Swans and geese came over to check whether I was the sort of […]<\/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-28788","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\/28788","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=28788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}