{"id":3582,"date":"2015-08-17T08:39:46","date_gmt":"2015-08-17T08:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/?p=3582"},"modified":"2015-08-19T18:22:32","modified_gmt":"2015-08-19T18:22:32","slug":"monadhliath-mountains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/17\/monadhliath-mountains\/","title":{"rendered":"Monadhliath Mountains"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Ambre,<\/a>
Ambre, Roy and Noggin setting out into the mountains<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Rhacomitrium<\/a>
Rhacomitrium<\/span> heath on the Monadhliath Mountains<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Sphagnum<\/a>
Rhacomitrium heath on the Monadhliath Mountains<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Alpine<\/a>
Alpine Lady’s Mantle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"A<\/a>
A Moss – green and red Sphagnum<\/span> in a peat hag<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Northern<\/a>
Northern Spinach Moth Eulithis populata<\/span> (FP Bilberry)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Pupating<\/a>
Pupating Emperor Moth Caterpillar Saturnia pavonia<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I was lucky enough to catch an Emperor Moth caterpillar in the act of preparing to pupate; the full-grown caterpillar with its hairy aposematic yellow-green body marked with black is tied on to the grass stems with a hundred silken threads.<\/p>\n

\"Glorious<\/a>
Glorious lichened rock on summit<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On the summit ridge, this flat rock was covered with magnificently coloured lichens in shades of orange, yellow ochre, grey and white, with black, grey, brown or burgundy apothecia.<\/p>\n

\"Herd<\/a>
Herd of Red Deer on Sunlit Skyline<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Towards the end of the eight-and-a-half-hour walk with the sun westering low over the hills, we caught sight of a herd of 32 hinds. The little Nikon captured this nice shot of them, all peering down at us from the skyline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was lucky enough to catch an Emperor Moth caterpillar in the act of preparing to pupate; the full-grown caterpillar with its hairy aposematic yellow-green body marked with black is tied on to the grass stems with a hundred silken threads. On the summit ridge, this flat rock was covered with magnificently coloured lichens in … Continue reading Monadhliath Mountains<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[844,840,839,841,502,842,843],"class_list":["post-3582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natural-history","tag-alpine-ladys-mantle","tag-emperor-moth","tag-northern-spinach-moth","tag-pupation","tag-red-deer","tag-rhacomitrium-heath","tag-sphagnum-rubrum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3582","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=3582"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3611,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3582\/revisions\/3611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}