{"id":8110,"date":"2022-05-06T13:01:45","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T13:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/?p=8110"},"modified":"2022-05-06T15:23:45","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T15:23:45","slug":"contrast-may-landscapes-at-wraysbury-lakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/06\/contrast-may-landscapes-at-wraysbury-lakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Contrasting May Landscapes at Wraysbury Lakes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Well, where can you see swamps, meadows, wild flowers, scrub, woodland, lakes, riverside, rough grassland, and even a Victorian monument, all in an hour’s walk, and in easy reach of London? Wraysbury is the answer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Comfrey by the lake<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Ring-necked Parakeet in its nest hole<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Move over, Alabama Swamps, this is Wraysbury! <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Sheep and Jackdaws on the banks of the reservoir. The Jackdaws devour insect grubs in the grass, especially in sheep droppings. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Colne Brook, May blossom, Lombardy poplars<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Cowslips, Bugle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Daisy lawn, Whitethroat scrub habitat<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Mute Swan drinking – the scene may look peaceful, but his wings and tail are raised threateningly even though no other birds were about! Such is the mating season.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Complicated, or what? In August 1832 it must have seemed well worth setting in stone the rights to not being flooded by anyone deliberately raising the water level above the limit defined here … <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I don’t know if I’d set this in stone, but I heard 5 warblers singing, and caught a typical glimpse of a Cetti’s warbler diving from a bush beside the lake – big, dark brown, it really wasn’t any other bird. Still, I didn’t hear it call, which would have decided the matter beyond reasonable doubt. So, a 5-and-a-half warbler walk, I guess. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Butterflies: Large white, Small white, Brimstone, Holly blue, Peacock, Speckled Wood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Odonata: Banded Demoiselle, Common blue (teneral, i.e. just emerged).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other insects: Mayfly, Alder fly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the way home, I went round Heathrow airport, and a Skylark sang to me through the open car window from the grassy areas beside the runways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, where can you see swamps, meadows, wild flowers, scrub, woodland, lakes, riverside, rough grassland, and even a Victorian monument, all in an hour’s walk, and in easy reach of London? Wraysbury is the answer. I don’t know if I’d set this in stone, but I heard 5 warblers singing, and caught a typical glimpse … Continue reading Contrasting May Landscapes 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":[20,1678,47,59,167,1680,124,156,1103,1138,146,18,52,1681],"class_list":["post-8110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natural-history","tag-blackcap","tag-bugle","tag-cettis-warbler","tag-chiffchaff","tag-comfrey","tag-cowslip","tag-garden-warbler","tag-jackdaw","tag-mute-swan","tag-ring-necked-parakeet","tag-sedge-warbler","tag-whitethroat","tag-wraysbury-lakes","tag-wraysbury-monument"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8110","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=8110"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8139,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8110\/revisions\/8139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}