{"id":31440,"date":"2023-10-24T16:52:13","date_gmt":"2023-10-24T15:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=31440"},"modified":"2023-10-24T16:52:13","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T15:52:13","slug":"river-ock-october-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=31440","title":{"rendered":"River Ock \u2013 October 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/2023102407.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe water churned after it came over the River Ock weir. It was the brown of tea and full of muddy particles. A stream of bubbles flowed down the other stream, caused by the turbulence from the other weir further up.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/2023102408.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nWith fewer leaves on the trees, the birds are becoming easier to spot. A kingfisher flew upstream, and a diving bird torpedoed downstream, both moving too quickly for me to get a good look at. But I did manage to see a moorhen.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/2023102401.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe paddling area (from yesterday&#8217;s raffle painting) is now too deep to paddle, and the rope swing is submerged. The river level was at its highest yesterday, but it&#8217;s still high today.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/2023102409.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe footpath to Tesco has become a watery cul-de-sac, after the flooding.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/2023102403.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe field between the River Ock and the A34 has been flooded.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/2023102411.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nLots of gulls have come in to enjoy the new temporary flooded field.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/2023102402.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe water has washed over many of the reeds, leaving the river looking more like its old self.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The water churned after it came over the River Ock weir. It was the brown of tea and full of muddy particles. A stream of bubbles flowed down the other stream, caused by the turbulence from the other weir further up. With fewer leaves on the trees, the birds are becoming easier to spot. A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[136,173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-river-ock","category-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31440","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=31440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}