{"id":29791,"date":"2022-10-19T22:43:30","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T21:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=29791"},"modified":"2022-10-19T22:43:30","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T21:43:30","slug":"radley-lakes-october-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=29791","title":{"rendered":"Radley Lakes \u2013 October 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag22\/2022101905.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThere was some blue sky this afternoon as I walked around Radley Lakes. Trees are turning red and bronze.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag22\/2022101908.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nI wonder how long it will be until the boat house, one of the landmarks of Thrupp Lake, disintegrates. Many large, dark-water birds were fishing in the lake. It is a wonder there are fish left.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag22\/2022101909.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe ducks land with a splash, and the water runs off them.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag22\/2022101903.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nCormorants are not so waterproof; they hang their wings out to dry after fishing.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag22\/2022101910.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe fallen leaves now cover the paths around the lakes.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag22\/2022101902a.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nA tree had fallen over the cycle track. It will be cleared by Sunday when 1,152 runners run by the lakes for the\u00a0 Abingdon Marathon. Unfortunately, I am away at the weekend, so if anybody gets some pictures, please email them to backstreet60@gmail.com.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag22\/2022101904.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nAfter walking around Thrupp Lake, I went by Orchard Lake, which also looks autumnal<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag22\/2022101918.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nas do the Restored Mineral Workings (Thrupp Green ).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was some blue sky this afternoon as I walked around Radley Lakes. Trees are turning red and bronze. I wonder how long it will be until the boat house, one of the landmarks of Thrupp Lake, disintegrates. Many large, dark-water birds were fishing in the lake. It is a wonder there are fish left. [&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-29791","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\/29791","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=29791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}