{"id":6793,"date":"2019-03-21T15:45:03","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T15:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/?p=6793"},"modified":"2019-03-21T15:45:03","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T15:45:03","slug":"signs-of-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/21\/signs-of-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"Signs of Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/DSCN6994-LWT-Intern-Trainee-learning-to-sharpen-an-Austrian-Scythe-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6797\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/DSCN6994-LWT-Intern-Trainee-learning-to-sharpen-an-Austrian-Scythe-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/DSCN6994-LWT-Intern-Trainee-learning-to-sharpen-an-Austrian-Scythe-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/DSCN6994-LWT-Intern-Trainee-learning-to-sharpen-an-Austrian-Scythe-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/DSCN6994-LWT-Intern-Trainee-learning-to-sharpen-an-Austrian-Scythe-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/DSCN6994-LWT-Intern-Trainee-learning-to-sharpen-an-Austrian-Scythe.jpg 1336w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>LWT Intern Trainee learning to sharpen an Austrian Scythe. We mowed the Acid Grassland along the track of the old railway.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first day of spring, and a Chiffchaff was singing down in the reserve. The hawthorn hedge, laid last year, is springing up into fresh green and thickening up nicely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"578\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/DSCN6992-GT-Red-Tailed-Bumblebee-1024x578.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6794\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/DSCN6992-GT-Red-Tailed-Bumblebee-1024x578.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/DSCN6992-GT-Red-Tailed-Bumblebee-150x85.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/DSCN6992-GT-Red-Tailed-Bumblebee-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/DSCN6992-GT-Red-Tailed-Bumblebee-768x434.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>A Red-Tailed Bumblebee groggily clambered about<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/RSCN7009-GT-Red-Spider-Mite-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6795\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/RSCN7009-GT-Red-Spider-Mite.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/RSCN7009-GT-Red-Spider-Mite-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/RSCN7009-GT-Red-Spider-Mite-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/RSCN7009-GT-Red-Spider-Mite-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>A Red (&#8220;Spider&#8221;) Mite crawled briskly about on a Willow stump. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/RSCN7002-Hoverfly-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6796\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/RSCN7002-Hoverfly-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/RSCN7002-Hoverfly-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/RSCN7002-Hoverfly-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/RSCN7002-Hoverfly-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/RSCN7002-Hoverfly.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Handsome Hoverfly<br><br><br><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first day of spring, and a Chiffchaff was singing down in the reserve. The hawthorn hedge, laid last year, is springing up into fresh green and thickening up nicely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[1231,59,16,78,1423,1422,1424],"class_list":["post-6793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natural-history","tag-austrian-scythe","tag-chiffchaff","tag-gunnersbury-triangle-nature-reserve","tag-hoverfly","tag-red-spider-mite","tag-red-tailed-bumblebee","tag-sharpening-stone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6793","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=6793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6798,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6793\/revisions\/6798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}