{"id":6579,"date":"2018-10-31T13:46:25","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T13:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/?p=6579"},"modified":"2018-10-31T14:02:31","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T14:02:31","slug":"deer-and-dragonflies-at-halloween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/31\/deer-and-dragonflies-at-halloween\/","title":{"rendered":"Deer and Dragonflies &#8230; at Hallowe&#8217;en"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6582\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6582\" style=\"width: 474px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/DSCN6460-Deer-floating-in-sunny-grass-Richmond-Park.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-6582\" src=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/DSCN6460-Deer-floating-in-sunny-grass-Richmond-Park-1024x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/DSCN6460-Deer-floating-in-sunny-grass-Richmond-Park-1024x800.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/DSCN6460-Deer-floating-in-sunny-grass-Richmond-Park-150x117.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/DSCN6460-Deer-floating-in-sunny-grass-Richmond-Park-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/DSCN6460-Deer-floating-in-sunny-grass-Richmond-Park-768x600.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6582\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Deer floating in sunny grass, Richmond Park<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Well, I might reasonably have expected to see Red Deer in Richmond Park in today&#8217;s beautiful sunshine, but Dragonflies for Hallowe&#8217;en? That was a bit of a surprise. I saw that magical sparkle about 7 times, twice consisting of an attached pair (&#8220;in cop&#8221;) of Common Darters. Most of the rest were certainly also darters, but once I caught a flash of blue, so perhaps that was\u00a0 a Migrant Hawker or more probably a Southern Hawker dashing into the distance on the breeze.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I might reasonably have expected to see Red Deer in Richmond Park in today&#8217;s beautiful sunshine, but Dragonflies for Hallowe&#8217;en? That was a bit of a surprise. I saw that magical sparkle about 7 times, twice consisting of an attached pair (&#8220;in cop&#8221;) of Common Darters. Most of the rest were certainly also darters, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/31\/deer-and-dragonflies-at-halloween\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Deer and Dragonflies &#8230; at Hallowe&#8217;en<\/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":[496,502,504,897],"class_list":["post-6579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natural-history","tag-common-darter","tag-red-deer","tag-richmond-park","tag-southern-hawker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6579","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=6579"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6587,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6579\/revisions\/6587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}