{"id":6447,"date":"2018-09-21T15:40:55","date_gmt":"2018-09-21T15:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/?p=6447"},"modified":"2018-09-21T15:57:26","modified_gmt":"2018-09-21T15:57:26","slug":"autumn-insects-at-thursley-common","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/21\/autumn-insects-at-thursley-common\/","title":{"rendered":"Autumn Insects at Thursley Common"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6448\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6448\" style=\"width: 474px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Black-Darter-Thursley-21-Sept-2018.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-6448\" src=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Black-Darter-Thursley-21-Sept-2018-1024x528.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Black-Darter-Thursley-21-Sept-2018-1024x528.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Black-Darter-Thursley-21-Sept-2018-150x77.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Black-Darter-Thursley-21-Sept-2018-300x155.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Black-Darter-Thursley-21-Sept-2018-768x396.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6448\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Black Darter &#8211; a dragonfly in late September, and a windy day too. The only other dragonfly about was the Common Darter, I saw two or three.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6449\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6449\" style=\"width: 474px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Woolly-Bear-caterpillar.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-6449\" src=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Woolly-Bear-caterpillar-1024x517.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Woolly-Bear-caterpillar-1024x517.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Woolly-Bear-caterpillar-150x76.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Woolly-Bear-caterpillar-300x152.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Woolly-Bear-caterpillar-768x388.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Woolly-Bear-caterpillar.jpg 1981w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6449\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Woolly Bear caterpillar (of a Garden Tiger Moth) on one of the boardwalks.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Other insects seen included a few bumblebees and some moths scooting away in the strong wind, perhaps Silver Y.<\/p>\n<p>There were only a few birds about; I saw some swallows, two stonechats, a crow, a jay, a gull, a chaffinch, and a finch-sized bird with a white rump flying into a tree, perhaps a bullfinch. Three mallard loitered on the Moat Pond.<\/p>\n<p>A flash of yellow revealed some Gorse in bloom, alongside some fine purple Bell Heather.<\/p>\n<p>The only fungus to be seen was a brown rollrim. A dead birch trunk was colourful with Common Orange Lichen.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Other insects seen included a few bumblebees and some moths scooting away in the strong wind, perhaps Silver Y. There were only a few birds about; I saw some swallows, two stonechats, a crow, a jay, a gull, a chaffinch, and a finch-sized bird with a white rump flying into a tree, perhaps a bullfinch. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/21\/autumn-insects-at-thursley-common\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Autumn Insects at Thursley Common<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","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":[433,1376,313,1375],"class_list":["post-6447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natural-history","tag-black-darter","tag-garden-tiger-moth","tag-thursley-common","tag-woolly-bear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6447","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=6447"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6456,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6447\/revisions\/6456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}