{"id":1519,"date":"2014-09-05T17:49:57","date_gmt":"2014-09-05T17:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/?page_id=1519"},"modified":"2022-09-05T10:40:41","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T10:40:41","slug":"talks","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"About\" href=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/book\/about\/\">Ian Alexander<\/a> is available in the London area and further afield to speak on Natural History subjects.<\/p>\n<p>Talks can be given in person, with the advantage of social interaction, live demonstration, and actually seeing and handling specimens and rare books, or over the Internet via Zoom.<\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 100%;\"><!--doesn't use the RHS widget area, however--><\/p>\n<tbody><!---------------------Camouflage-------------------------><\/p>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top;\">\n<h5><a title=\"Camouflage without Spots\" href=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/talks\/camouflage-without-spots\/\"> Camouflage<br \/>\nwithout\u00a0Spots\u00a0<\/a><\/h5>\n<p>A lively lecture\/demonstration of the principles of animal camouflage &#8216;for ages 8 to 80&#8217; using physical objects and photographs<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Reduvius_personatus_Masked_Hunter_Bug_nymph_camouflaged_with_sand_grains.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-691\" src=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Reduvius_personatus_Masked_Hunter_Bug_nymph_camouflaged_with_sand_grains-300x182.jpg\" alt=\"Masked Hunter Bug, camouflaged with sand grains\" width=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Reduvius_personatus_Masked_Hunter_Bug_nymph_camouflaged_with_sand_grains-300x182.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Reduvius_personatus_Masked_Hunter_Bug_nymph_camouflaged_with_sand_grains-1024x623.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nA Masked Hunter Bug shows off its marvellous camouflage<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr><!---------------------ELAWN-------------------------><\/p>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top;\">\n<h5><a title=\"English Love Affair with Nature\" href=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/talks\/english-love-affair-with-nature\/\"> The\u00a0English\u00a0Love\u00a0Affair<br \/>\nwith\u00a0Nature <\/a><\/h5>\n<p>A lively talk, illustrated with slides and hand specimens, of the history\u00a0 of our nation&#8217;s long, passionate love affair with nature, from art to gardening and the animal cruelty movement to conservation<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Magpie-by-Thomas-Bewick.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1836 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Magpie-by-Thomas-Bewick-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"Magpie by Thomas Bewick\" width=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Magpie-by-Thomas-Bewick-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Magpie-by-Thomas-Bewick-1024x766.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Magpie-by-Thomas-Bewick.jpg 1210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Thomas Bewick&#8217;s <em>British Birds<\/em> was one of the 2 books that started the English love affair with nature, 200 years ago<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr><!---------------------Urban Nature Reserve-------------------------><\/p>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top;\">\n<h5><a href=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/talks\/talk-urban-nature-reserve\/\">Urban Nature Reserve<\/a><\/h5>\n<p>A lively talk, illustrated with slides, of the life of the Gunnersbury Triangle local nature reserve, with its history, activities, conservation work, and wildlife<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/GT-last-stobs-before-shutdown.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-7353\" src=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/GT-last-stobs-before-shutdown-113x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"113\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/GT-last-stobs-before-shutdown-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/GT-last-stobs-before-shutdown-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/GT-last-stobs-before-shutdown-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/GT-last-stobs-before-shutdown.jpg 1002w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 113px) 100vw, 113px\" \/><\/a> Making a box of stobs to retain path edgings, just one of many activities in the life of an urban nature reserve<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ian Alexander is available in the London area and further afield to speak on Natural History subjects. Talks can be given in person, with the advantage of social interaction, live demonstration, and actually seeing and handling specimens and rare books, or over the Internet via Zoom. Camouflage without\u00a0Spots\u00a0 A lively lecture\/demonstration of the principles of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/talks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Talks<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"page-templates\/full-width.php","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1519","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1519"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8321,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1519\/revisions\/8321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}