{"id":5394,"date":"2017-07-08T13:19:02","date_gmt":"2017-07-08T13:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/?p=5394"},"modified":"2017-07-09T08:52:11","modified_gmt":"2017-07-09T08:52:11","slug":"thursley-common-not-just-dragonflies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/08\/thursley-common-not-just-dragonflies\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursley Common, not just dragonflies"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Round-Leaved Sundew Drosera rotundifolia<\/u>, an insectivorous plant<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Red-topped Cladonia floerkana<\/u> lichens<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

OK, ok, you wanted some dragonflies. There were masses of Black-Tailed Skimmers chasing about in groups at Pudmore Pond. Black Darters, Common Blue Damselflies, and Small Red Damselflies skittered about the smaller ponds. A large Hawker or two dashed past, unidentifiable, probably Southern Hawker. A Keeled Skimmer perched conveniently nearby, daintier than the Black-Tailed.<\/p>\n

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Female Black-Tailed Skimmer (doing a Tiffany Lampshade<\/a> impression)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Keeled Skimmer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Among the birds, some 50 Swallows were roosting on telegraph wires early in the day. Families of young Stonechats gave grating contact calls, unlike the stone-clicking call of the adults. A Redstart flicked its tail in the bushes. Skylarks rose and sang almost too high to see against the clouds over the heathy hills, Shelley described it perfectly in his ‘To a Skylark’: “a flood of rapture so divine”.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Black-Tailed Skimmer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

OK, ok, you wanted some dragonflies. There were masses of Black-Tailed Skimmers chasing about in groups at Pudmore Pond. Black Darters, Common Blue Damselflies, and Small Red Damselflies skittered about the smaller ponds. A large Hawker or two dashed past, unidentifiable, probably Southern Hawker. A Keeled Skimmer perched conveniently nearby, daintier than the Black-Tailed. Among … Continue reading Thursley Common, not just dragonflies<\/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":[239,90,88],"tags":[424,1180,429,809,166,314,1179,160,313],"class_list":["post-5394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-love-of-nature","category-natural-history","category-nature-reserves","tag-black-tailed-skimmer","tag-cladonia-floerkana","tag-keeled-skimmer","tag-redstart","tag-skylark","tag-stonechat","tag-sundew","tag-swallow","tag-thursley-common"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5394","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=5394"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5406,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5394\/revisions\/5406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}