{"id":29529,"date":"2022-08-15T21:18:41","date_gmt":"2022-08-15T20:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=29529"},"modified":"2022-08-15T21:18:41","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T20:18:41","slug":"radley-lakes-august-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=29529","title":{"rendered":"Radley Lakes \u2013 August 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nDuring the summer, information boards and seats have appeared around Radley Lakes. This information board and these seats are in Barton Fields.<\/p>\n

The Radley Lakes area was farmland, which the railway passed through. From 1955 major gravel extraction began. Some of the pits filled with water, others were filled with fuel ash from Didcot power station and are now covered with trees and sedges. The Abingdon railway branch closed and became part of a national cycle path.
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\nThere are new seats with a view of the largest lake, Thrupp Lake.
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\nHow many sorts of bird can you see in this picture?
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\nSwans were waterweed dipping nearby.
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\nCoots were waterweed diving near the wooden walkway in one corner of Thrupp Lake. The surface is covered with feathers in this corner, or perhaps they are flying seeds.
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\nIn another corner a colony of water lilies bloomed.
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\nOn the other side of the national cycle path, Orchard Lake has dried up this summer.
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\nYou can see an adult heron and a young heron at the end of Orchard Lake. The other young flew off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

During the summer, information boards and seats have appeared around Radley Lakes. This information board and these seats are in Barton Fields. The Radley Lakes area was farmland, which the railway passed through. From 1955 major gravel extraction began. Some of the pits filled with water, others were filled with fuel ash from Didcot power […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29529","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\/29529","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}