{"id":31697,"date":"2023-12-31T00:16:09","date_gmt":"2023-12-30T23:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=31697"},"modified":"2023-12-31T00:16:09","modified_gmt":"2023-12-30T23:16:09","slug":"river-ock-in-abingdon-december-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=31697","title":{"rendered":"River Ock in Abingdon \u2013 December 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/2023122900a.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe Ock Valley Walk is muddy at the moment. It looks like a cross-country course with the ground churned and the path spreading as people try to avoid the mud.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/2023122929.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nBirds are easier to see now that the leaf cover has gone.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/2023122912a.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThis may be a dunnock (Hedge Sparrow).<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/2023122923b-EDIT.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nLong Tailed Tit.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/2023122900.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThere is a tunnel through some very thick bushes and a hide facing the river. It was out of sight until now.<\/p>\n<p>There are also places where litter is now revealed including a dump from some travellers that was not evident before. I saw two town council staff looking at it and they said they&#8217;d have to take a lorry down.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/2023122916a.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThere are lots of squirrels along the Ock Valley Walk.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/2023122911.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nAlso more ducks than at other times during the year.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/2023122921.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe river is high and sandy looking from all the sediment. It is raining again heavily this evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ock Valley Walk is muddy at the moment. It looks like a cross-country course with the ground churned and the path spreading as people try to avoid the mud. Birds are easier to see now that the leaf cover has gone. This may be a dunnock (Hedge Sparrow). Long Tailed Tit. There is 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-31697","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\/31697","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=31697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}