{"id":3219,"date":"2015-05-21T14:28:19","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T14:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/?p=3219"},"modified":"2015-05-22T07:54:32","modified_gmt":"2015-05-22T07:54:32","slug":"newly-emerged-birds-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/21\/newly-emerged-birds-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Newly-Emerged Birds, Butterflies and Damselflies"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Driving<\/a>
Driving in posts for wooden railing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On a lovely May day, we replaced quite a bit of wooden railing, the rail mainly being fine but several of the posts having rotted at the base.<\/p>\n

As we worked, a pair of Brimstone butterflies flew nearby, as well as a few Orange Tips, a Red Admiral, a couple of Holly Blues, and a Large White. It was very pretty among the cow parsley, green alkanet and garlic mustard, with visiting bees and hoverflies. A couple of brilliant metallic green Rose Chafer beetles flew over, just above the tops of the cow parsley.<\/p>\n

Around the reserve, newly-fledged robins and jays were hopping about unsteadily.\u00a0 A blackcap sang sweetly; a blackbird, a wren and some robins chattered in alarm from a thicket, mobbing a predator, apparently a magpie \u2014 most probably as it threatened to rob a nest of eggs or young.<\/p>\n

\"Azure<\/a>
Azure Damselfly pair choosing egg-laying sites together<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Above the pond, Azure Damselflies and Large Red Damselflies were in cop and egg-laying (both species); up to three male Small Reds at a time were dashing about in tiny dogfights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On a lovely May day, we replaced quite a bit of wooden railing, the rail mainly being fine but several of the posts having rotted at the base. As we worked, a pair of Brimstone butterflies flew nearby, as well as a few Orange Tips, a Red Admiral, a couple of Holly Blues, and a … Continue reading Newly-Emerged Birds, Butterflies and Damselflies<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[368,76,107,316,168,573,351],"class_list":["post-3219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natural-history","tag-azure-damselfly","tag-brimstone","tag-holly-blue","tag-large-red-damselfly","tag-orange-tip","tag-red-admiral","tag-rose-chafer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=3219"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3228,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3219\/revisions\/3228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}