{"id":33938,"date":"2025-07-01T14:24:59","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T13:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=33938"},"modified":"2025-07-01T14:24:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T13:24:59","slug":"bubbles-and-a-heron-at-the-weir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=33938","title":{"rendered":"Heron at the Weir (Theme Day &#8216;Bubbles&#8217;)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025070109.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe weir walkway has been closed, much to the disappointment of many Abingdon residents and regular walkers. The closure was for safety reasons, after corrosion was found in the steelwork supporting the structure. The Environment Agency are investigating. A diversion is in place until 15 November 2025. There\u2019s still hope it might reopen sooner.<\/p>\n<p>While people are kept away, the local wildlife is enjoying the peace. A heron fishes in the churning waters beneath the weir.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025070101.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe 1st of July is \u201cTheme Day\u201d in the City Daily Photo blogging circle, and <a href=\"https:\/\/citydailyphoto.org\/2025\/06\/23\/july-gallery-bubbles\/\">this month\u2019s theme is Bubbles<\/a>. At Abingdon Weir, the heron fishes in a froth of them.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025070104.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nEvery second, the water falling through the sluices creates countless bubbles \u2014 expanding, bursting, and vanishing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The weir walkway has been closed, much to the disappointment of many Abingdon residents and regular walkers. The closure was for safety reasons, after corrosion was found in the steelwork supporting the structure. The Environment Agency are investigating. A diversion is in place until 15 November 2025. There\u2019s still hope it might reopen sooner. While [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[158],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theme-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33938","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=33938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}