{"id":34150,"date":"2025-08-22T20:10:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T19:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=34150"},"modified":"2025-08-22T20:10:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T19:10:13","slug":"fishing-line-traps-heron-in-mill-stream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=34150","title":{"rendered":"Fishing Line Traps Heron in Mill Stream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025082201.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nOn the morning of 13 August, a heron \u2014 a familiar visitor to the mill stream by Thames Street \u2014 was heard calling persistently from around 7:30 am. It soon became clear that the bird was in distress, unable to move far or leave the water.<\/p>\n<p>The RSPCA arrived at the scene around 10:00 am and, seeing the bird\u2019s condition, called in the fire service. Firefighters entered the water and lifted out the exhausted heron, which by then was too weak to resist.<\/p>\n<p>The RSPCA said a fishing hook was lodged in the bird\u2019s wing, with line trailing into the lilies and holding it fast.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks go to G for the photograph and to J for passing on the story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the morning of 13 August, a heron \u2014 a familiar visitor to the mill stream by Thames Street \u2014 was heard calling persistently from around 7:30 am. It soon became clear that the bird was in distress, unable to move far or leave the water. The RSPCA arrived at the scene around 10:00 am [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[138,173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-river-thames","category-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34150","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=34150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}