{"id":35334,"date":"2026-04-20T22:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T21:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=35334"},"modified":"2026-04-20T22:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T21:57:08","slug":"sheep-round-and-about-abingdon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=35334","title":{"rendered":"Sheep round and about Abingdon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026042001a.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nWe in Abingdon are getting used to seeing more sheep in the fields around the town. There have been sheep grazing near Abingdon Lock for some time now, so they\u2019re no longer a novelty.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026042003.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nBut on a walk today, I saw a larger flock in the field with Tesco and Premier Inn behind. They also appeared to be all adults, rather than the usual mix of sheep and spring lambs seen near the Lock.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026042004.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nLarge groups would charge about in large numbers \u2014 first one way, then the other \u2014 as if being chased. But there was no signs of a dog. They could be new and not used to the area and so easily spooked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We in Abingdon are getting used to seeing more sheep in the fields around the town. There have been sheep grazing near Abingdon Lock for some time now, so they\u2019re no longer a novelty. But on a walk today, I saw a larger flock in the field with Tesco and Premier Inn behind. They also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-farming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35334","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=35334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}