{"id":28884,"date":"2022-05-13T19:56:48","date_gmt":"2022-05-13T18:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=28884"},"modified":"2022-05-13T19:56:48","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T18:56:48","slug":"ock-valley-dawn-chorus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=28884","title":{"rendered":"Ock Valley dawn chorus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag22\/2022051219.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nAlun&#8217;s parents live near the Ock, and he ventured out on bank holiday Monday to record a dawn chorus from the Ock Valley Walk. It&#8217;s online on the Radio Aporee website.<\/p>\n<p>The recording is an hour long and is a relaxing way to spend an hour or have as background birdsong. Alun took the risk of leaving the recording gear in the woods at 4:30 am while he nipped back for a cup of tea. He was a bit worried on returning because he had to search to find where he had placed them. He said standing around sniffing or rustling a coat is not good for the recording.<\/p>\n<p>On the Aporee site, you can navigate the globe and listen and download recordings. Alun&#8217;s dawn chorus is available at <a href=\"https:\/\/aporee.org\/maps\/?loc=56785&#038;m=satellite\">https:\/\/aporee.org\/maps\/?loc=56785&amp;m=satellite<\/a>.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag22\/2022051202.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nI walked the Ock Valley Walk earlier this afternoon. The nettles are knee-high and, at their best, fresh and light green.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag22\/2022051203.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nMayflies were bouncing up and down like yo yos. A few had settled.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag22\/2022051212.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nMany birds could be heard, and a few could be seen eating insects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alun&#8217;s parents live near the Ock, and he ventured out on bank holiday Monday to record a dawn chorus from the Ock Valley Walk. It&#8217;s online on the Radio Aporee website. The recording is an hour long and is a relaxing way to spend an hour or have as background birdsong. Alun took the risk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28884","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=28884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}