{"id":7749,"date":"2021-06-29T13:07:05","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T13:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/?p=7749"},"modified":"2021-06-29T13:07:05","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T13:07:05","slug":"muntjac-deer-in-gunnersbury-triangle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/29\/muntjac-deer-in-gunnersbury-triangle\/","title":{"rendered":"Muntjac Deer in Gunnersbury Triangle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"615\" height=\"1024\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20210629-GT-Muntjac-Prints-615x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20210629-GT-Muntjac-Prints-615x1024.jpg 615w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20210629-GT-Muntjac-Prints-180x300.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20210629-GT-Muntjac-Prints-90x150.jpg 90w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20210629-GT-Muntjac-Prints-768x1278.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20210629-GT-Muntjac-Prints-923x1536.jpg 923w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20210629-GT-Muntjac-Prints-rotated.jpg 1011w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 615px) 100vw, 615px\" \/><figcaption>Plenty of Muntjac Prints on the path near the Mud Sofa (if you know the reserve)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Well, quite the summer surprise: after all these years, none of us had ever seen or heard of a deer in the little urban reserve. But this weekend a visitor shyly checked with the warden whether they could have seen a deer; and a volunteer met the Muntjac, though they didn&#8217;t have a camera. Today, the deer had left some fine prints &#8212; indeed, trails &#8212; in the soft earth on various sections of path. The small size of the prints, and the pointed, cloven hoofs, leave no doubt whatsoever which species made them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We&#8217;re preparing a Nature Trail with little wooden boards for children to find. So Muntjac prints can feature among the other mammal (and maybe bird) footprints that we see on the reserve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, quite the summer surprise: after all these years, none of us had ever seen or heard of a deer in the little urban reserve. But this weekend a visitor shyly checked with the warden whether they could have seen a deer; and a volunteer met the Muntjac, though they didn&#8217;t have a camera. Today, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/29\/muntjac-deer-in-gunnersbury-triangle\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Muntjac Deer in Gunnersbury Triangle<\/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":[712,974,302],"class_list":["post-7749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natural-history","tag-gunnersbury-triangle","tag-mammal-tracks","tag-muntjac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7749","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=7749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7751,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7749\/revisions\/7751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}