{"id":7632,"date":"2021-05-07T18:24:02","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T18:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/?p=7632"},"modified":"2021-05-08T11:40:08","modified_gmt":"2021-05-08T11:40:08","slug":"sumer-is-icumen-in-cuckoo-swifts-butterflies-at-wraysbury-lakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/07\/sumer-is-icumen-in-cuckoo-swifts-butterflies-at-wraysbury-lakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Sumer is icumen in … Cuckoo, Swifts, Butterflies at wraysbury lakes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Male Orange Tip butterfly, a herald of summer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Cuckoo Flower, and yes, it’s so named because it comes out when the Cuckoo arrives<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Cuckoo Flowers … and a singing Cuckoo! A real pleasure after months of lockdown. And a flight of 3 Swifts over the lake: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Sumer is Icumen In,
Lhude sing Cuccu!”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

sang the Middle English poet, centuries ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A Green-Veined White butterfly taking nectar in the brilliant sunshine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A Buzzard with prey, eyeing the camera beadily from a tall tree<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A beautifully-framed lawn of Daisies among the Willows and Poplars<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Not pictured are the many Warblers that were singing today – Blackcaps, Chiffchaffs, Garden Warblers, Cetti’s Warblers, and Whitethroats. There weren’t any Sedge Warblers, though, something there always used to be here. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from the attractive butterflies, there were the year’s first Banded Demoiselles, the males with their long transparent wings marked with a large dark blue patch; and near the water, Alder flies with their clear wings with dark veins. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ewes and lambs grazing the banks of the reservoir<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Isn’t that a fine sight for London? Sheep peacefully grazing the steep grassy banks of the reservoir. The water company saves a lot of trouble, noise, fuel, money, and frankly danger trying to mow the slopes: the sheep do the job better. Now if only everything was so well thought out…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cuckoo Flowers … and a singing Cuckoo! A real pleasure after months of lockdown. And a flight of 3 Swifts over the lake: “Sumer is Icumen In, Lhude sing Cuccu!” sang the Middle English poet, centuries ago. Not pictured are the many Warblers that were singing today – Blackcaps, Chiffchaffs, Garden Warblers, Cetti’s Warblers, and … Continue reading Sumer is icumen in … Cuckoo, Swifts, Butterflies at wraysbury lakes<\/span> →<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-7632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natural-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7632","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=7632"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7646,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7632\/revisions\/7646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}