{"id":5627,"date":"2017-11-29T12:26:51","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T12:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/?p=5627"},"modified":"2017-11-30T15:56:07","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T15:56:07","slug":"charming-wooden-animal-trail-at-gunnersbury-triangle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/29\/charming-wooden-animal-trail-at-gunnersbury-triangle\/","title":{"rendered":"Charming Wooden Animal Trail at Gunnersbury Triangle"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Wooden Animal Trail Camouflaged Smooth Newt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Netty found some dusty but very well-made wooden animals, complete with attachment rings, evidently designed for use on a Nature Trail. She repainted all of them and we hung them around the reserve. The camouflaged animals – the newt and the frog – seemed to ‘work’ the best. We hope the children will have fun going around with their parents to find them. One or two may be quite difficult!<\/p>\n

It wasn’t all wooden animals. As it happens, we saw some of the real things, November or not.<\/p>\n

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Wooden Animal Trail Dragonfly<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

[Spoiler alert!] We went down to the pond to affix the Dragonfly, and spotted a small limp orange shape floating apparently lifeless at the surface…<\/p>\n

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Rescuing a drowning newt. We put it in one of the Anthill Meadow refugia (under a carpet mat), it seemed to be fine.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Then we started mowing the Ramp Meadow with its remarkably fine stand of Evening Primroses …<\/p>\n

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Mowing the Ramp Meadow, Evening Primroses and all<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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… and found a real frog, escaping the scythes and boots.<\/p>\n

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Plumply pregnant frog escaping the mowers’ boots and scythes to wriggle under the boundary fence of Ramp Meadow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Forest School decorated Christmas Candles very gracefully.<\/p>\n

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Christmas Candles with fresh Holly, Ivy, and Yew<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Netty found some dusty but very well-made wooden animals, complete with attachment rings, evidently designed for use on a Nature Trail. She repainted all of them and we hung them around the reserve. The camouflaged animals – the newt and the frog – seemed to ‘work’ the best. We hope the children will have fun … Continue reading Charming Wooden Animal Trail at Gunnersbury Triangle<\/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":[239,88],"tags":[1231,152,1229,1230,1228,34,1227,712,1226,761],"class_list":["post-5627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-love-of-nature","category-nature-reserves","tag-austrian-scythe","tag-camouflage","tag-candle-decoration","tag-christmas-candle","tag-christmas-decoration","tag-common-frog","tag-dragonfly","tag-gunnersbury-triangle","tag-nature-trail","tag-smooth-newt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5627","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=5627"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5644,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5627\/revisions\/5644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}