{"id":6542,"date":"2018-10-23T14:35:39","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T14:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/?p=6542"},"modified":"2018-10-29T15:24:06","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T15:24:06","slug":"scything-the-gunnersbury-triangle-ramp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/23\/scything-the-gunnersbury-triangle-ramp\/","title":{"rendered":"Scything the Gunnersbury Triangle Ramp"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6543\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6543\" style=\"width: 474px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Scything-and-raking-the-GT-ramp.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-6543\" src=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Scything-and-raking-the-GT-ramp-1024x610.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Scything-and-raking-the-GT-ramp-1024x610.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Scything-and-raking-the-GT-ramp-150x89.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Scything-and-raking-the-GT-ramp-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Scything-and-raking-the-GT-ramp-768x458.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Scything-and-raking-the-GT-ramp.jpg 1319w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6543\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scything and raking the ramp meadow. An Evening Primrose, still in flower on 23 October, has been left. The wooden rail has been replaced by a linear loggery of Birch and Willow posts, providing habitat for insects and fungi.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6544\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6544\" style=\"width: 474px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Bank-Vole-nest-on-ramp.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-6544\" src=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Bank-Vole-nest-on-ramp-1024x760.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Bank-Vole-nest-on-ramp-1024x760.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Bank-Vole-nest-on-ramp-150x111.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Bank-Vole-nest-on-ramp-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Bank-Vole-nest-on-ramp-768x570.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Bank-Vole-nest-on-ramp.jpg 1305w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6544\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This Bank Vole nest was exposed by the mowing. The vole itself could be seen wriggling through the remaining grass and leaves, and we all had a brief but good view of it as it emerged, chunky dark brown body, short tail, and slow progress very unlike a woodmouse.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6546\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6546\" style=\"width: 808px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/GT-Bank-Vole-eating-Mugwort-seeds.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6546\" src=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/GT-Bank-Vole-eating-Mugwort-seeds.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"808\" height=\"593\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/GT-Bank-Vole-eating-Mugwort-seeds.jpg 808w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/GT-Bank-Vole-eating-Mugwort-seeds-150x110.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/GT-Bank-Vole-eating-Mugwort-seeds-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/GT-Bank-Vole-eating-Mugwort-seeds-768x564.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 808px) 100vw, 808px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6546\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The next day &#8230; we saw this Bank Vole eating Mugwort seeds in the wildflower area with the apple tree, next to the tool hut.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/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":[986,1387,16,1388],"class_list":["post-6542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natural-history","tag-bank-vole","tag-evening-primrose","tag-gunnersbury-triangle-nature-reserve","tag-mugwort"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6542","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=6542"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6577,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6542\/revisions\/6577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}