{"id":8708,"date":"2023-06-24T13:52:49","date_gmt":"2023-06-24T13:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/?p=8708"},"modified":"2023-06-24T13:58:24","modified_gmt":"2023-06-24T13:58:24","slug":"hot-and-humid-on-puttenham-common","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/24\/hot-and-humid-on-puttenham-common\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot and Humid on Puttenham Common"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Puttenham-Common-Alder-forest-by-the-tarn-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8710\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Puttenham-Common-Alder-forest-by-the-tarn-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Puttenham-Common-Alder-forest-by-the-tarn-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Puttenham-Common-Alder-forest-by-the-tarn-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Puttenham-Common-Alder-forest-by-the-tarn.jpg 1002w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Alder forest! The species likes to get its feet wet, growing by rivers and lakes. Here, a patch of damp low-lying land by the Tarn on the common gives a rare opportunity for a whole stand of the trees: surprisingly handsome, given their usual appearance as riverside bushes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"802\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Puttenham-Common-Black-tailed-Skimmer-1024x802.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8711\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Puttenham-Common-Black-tailed-Skimmer-1024x802.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Puttenham-Common-Black-tailed-Skimmer-300x235.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Puttenham-Common-Black-tailed-Skimmer-150x117.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Puttenham-Common-Black-tailed-Skimmer-768x601.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Puttenham-Common-Black-tailed-Skimmer-1536x1203.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Puttenham-Common-Black-tailed-Skimmer.jpg 1678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Black-tailed Skimmer resting near the Tarn. Several of them zoomed over the water, with an Emperor; a Great Crested Grebe fished; a fish jumped.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"486\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Puttenham-Common-Large-Skipper.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8712\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Puttenham-Common-Large-Skipper.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Puttenham-Common-Large-Skipper-300x235.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Puttenham-Common-Large-Skipper-150x118.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Large Skipper under the Birches<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Puttenham-Common-marvellously-orange-lichen-encrusted-Birch-tree-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8713\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Puttenham-Common-marvellously-orange-lichen-encrusted-Birch-tree-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Puttenham-Common-marvellously-orange-lichen-encrusted-Birch-tree-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Puttenham-Common-marvellously-orange-lichen-encrusted-Birch-tree-112x150.jpg 112w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Puttenham-Common-marvellously-orange-lichen-encrusted-Birch-tree-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Puttenham-Common-marvellously-orange-lichen-encrusted-Birch-tree.jpg 1382w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A Birch, unusually carpeted in crusty orange lichen (not Xanthoria, I think) or perhaps a non-lichen fungus<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Puttenham-Common-Polytrichum-moss-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8714\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Puttenham-Common-Polytrichum-moss-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Puttenham-Common-Polytrichum-moss-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Puttenham-Common-Polytrichum-moss-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Puttenham-Common-Polytrichum-moss-rotated.jpg 1002w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Handsome <em>Polytrichum <\/em>moss on forest floor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"849\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Puttenham-Common-Robber-Fly-with-Prey-on-Bracken-1024x849.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8709\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Puttenham-Common-Robber-Fly-with-Prey-on-Bracken-1024x849.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Puttenham-Common-Robber-Fly-with-Prey-on-Bracken-300x249.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Puttenham-Common-Robber-Fly-with-Prey-on-Bracken-150x124.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Puttenham-Common-Robber-Fly-with-Prey-on-Bracken-768x637.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A Robber Fly with its prey, on Bracken<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","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":[1780,424,431,1781,1758,875,1106],"class_list":["post-8708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natural-history","tag-alder","tag-black-tailed-skimmer","tag-large-skipper","tag-orange-lichen","tag-polytrichum","tag-robber-fly","tag-wet-woodland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8708","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=8708"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8720,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8708\/revisions\/8720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}