{"id":34334,"date":"2025-09-30T15:36:53","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T14:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=34334"},"modified":"2025-09-30T15:36:53","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T14:36:53","slug":"albert-park-through-the-year-september-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=34334","title":{"rendered":"Albert Park Through the Year: September 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025093001.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nWell into September and there was still a buzzing of bees \u2013 not round colourful blooms, but round the aromatic yellow-green flowers of ivy. These turn into black berries.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025093007.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nLooking up into one tree I saw dark eyes and a hooked beak. When I raised the camera I caught only the blur of a bird \u2013 a buzzard, which is sometimes seen perched on Trinity Church too.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025093004g.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nVirginia creeper leaves have turned deep red, clambering over the walls and hedges near the main entrance. St Michael\u2019s Church can be seen behind.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025093029.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nDuring the summer I hardly saw a squirrel, but now autumn is here they are back in numbers, often carrying nuts in their mouths.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025093012b.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nMost of the conkers fell earlier in the month, but here are a couple of ripening shells with the nut emerging and ready to drop.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025093016.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThere are usually several dogs walking in the park. This one had found an abandoned ball and was coaxing its owner to kick it so he could chase.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025093027.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe gate at the top end of the park has curling ironwork. \u2018C\u2019 on an \u2018H\u2019 \u2013 standing for Christ\u2019s Hospital, the charity that runs the park.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025093019e.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe Ginkgo tree, which had been slowly yellowing through the summer, now glows golden \u2013 ahead of most of the other trees. I expect to see more Autumn colours in October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well into September and there was still a buzzing of bees \u2013 not round colourful blooms, but round the aromatic yellow-green flowers of ivy. These turn into black berries. Looking up into one tree I saw dark eyes and a hooked beak. When I raised the camera I caught only the blur of a bird [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-albert-park"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34334","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=34334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}