{"id":6394,"date":"2018-09-01T14:32:29","date_gmt":"2018-09-01T14:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/?p=6394"},"modified":"2018-09-01T14:39:11","modified_gmt":"2018-09-01T14:39:11","slug":"indian-summer-in-richmond-park-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/01\/indian-summer-in-richmond-park-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Summer in Richmond Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6395\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6395\" style=\"width: 474px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/RSCN5841-Migrant-Hawker-hovering-by-lower-Pen-Pond.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-6395\" src=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/RSCN5841-Migrant-Hawker-hovering-by-lower-Pen-Pond-1024x774.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/RSCN5841-Migrant-Hawker-hovering-by-lower-Pen-Pond-1024x774.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/RSCN5841-Migrant-Hawker-hovering-by-lower-Pen-Pond-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/RSCN5841-Migrant-Hawker-hovering-by-lower-Pen-Pond-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/RSCN5841-Migrant-Hawker-hovering-by-lower-Pen-Pond-768x581.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/RSCN5841-Migrant-Hawker-hovering-by-lower-Pen-Pond.jpg 1305w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6395\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Migrant Hawker hovering by lower Pen Pond. I was pleased to get this nice shot of one of these handsome dragonflies, one of the most delicate and shimmering of the hawkers. It was alongside Common Blue damselflies (low over the path) and a few Common Darters.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6399\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6399\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/RSCN5838-Great-Crested-Grebe.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-6399 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/RSCN5838-Great-Crested-Grebe-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/RSCN5838-Great-Crested-Grebe-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/RSCN5838-Great-Crested-Grebe-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/RSCN5838-Great-Crested-Grebe.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6399\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Great Crested Grebe in the warm water<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6397\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6397\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/DSCN5832-Small-Heath-in-Richmond-Park.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-6397 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/DSCN5832-Small-Heath-in-Richmond-Park-300x241.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/DSCN5832-Small-Heath-in-Richmond-Park-300x241.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/DSCN5832-Small-Heath-in-Richmond-Park-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/DSCN5832-Small-Heath-in-Richmond-Park-768x616.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/DSCN5832-Small-Heath-in-Richmond-Park.jpg 890w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6397\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Small Heath butterfly: one of many skittering low in the short heathy grassland, perching on the ground. We saw few other insects, barring a fast and wriggly Carabid Beetle.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[1364,215,496,708,507,1281],"class_list":["post-6394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natural-history","tag-carabid-beetle","tag-common-blue-damselfly","tag-common-darter","tag-great-crested-grebe","tag-migrant-hawker","tag-small-heath"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6394","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6394"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6400,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6394\/revisions\/6400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}