{"id":30495,"date":"2023-03-24T22:41:50","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T21:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=30495"},"modified":"2023-03-24T22:41:50","modified_gmt":"2023-03-24T21:41:50","slug":"river-ock-march-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=30495","title":{"rendered":"River Ock \u2013 March 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/2023032316.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThere have been daffodils throughout March by the Ock Valley Walk.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/2023032323.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe first leaves appeared on the trees along the Ock Valley Walk in mid-March.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/2023032312b.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe Great spotted woodpecker can be heard by the distinctive &#8216;drumming&#8217; sound high up in the trees. They often move around the tree, out of sight of observers. They will soon be also hidden by the leaves.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/2023032318.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nMoorhen stride about on the land and paddle on the water. They eat grass and water weed.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/2023032310.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThere are lots of blackbirds. This one is bathing to help keep its feathers in condition.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/2023032301.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nWrens are another fairly common bird in the trees and bushes near the River Ock.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/2023032304c.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nA couple of muntjac deer were shown in the February post; this one was closer and clearer. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There have been daffodils throughout March by the Ock Valley Walk. The first leaves appeared on the trees along the Ock Valley Walk in mid-March. The Great spotted woodpecker can be heard by the distinctive &#8216;drumming&#8217; sound high up in the trees. They often move around the tree, out of sight of observers. They will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-river-ock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30495","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=30495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}