{"id":884,"date":"2014-08-09T09:12:35","date_gmt":"2014-08-09T09:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/?p=884"},"modified":"2014-08-10T10:35:58","modified_gmt":"2014-08-10T10:35:58","slug":"coastal-life-st-malo-brittany-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/09\/coastal-life-st-malo-brittany-france\/","title":{"rendered":"Coastal Life: St Malo, Brittany, France (7 July 2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Marine<\/a>
Marine in St Malo: Plush Soft Toy Lobster and Crab<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In St Malo, even the soft toys are marine invertebrates: lobsters and crabs, dressed in nautical striped shirts. The people are called Malouines: Malvinas in Spanish. The name is from Saint MacLaw, presumably a Scot, though that might not be sufficient grounds to claim that Las Malvinas, the ‘St-Maloers’ \u2013 better known as the Falkland Islands \u2013 are therefore inherently British.<\/p>\n

\"Coastal<\/a>
Coastal vegetation zones at St Malo: from top: grassland with gorse; the orange sea lichen Caloplaca marina<\/span>; the black tar lichen Verrucaria maura<\/span>; green algae; (dark) brown algae.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Around the walls of the old town, black redstart, house sparrow, jackdaw, chaffinch, rock pipit, herring gull, lesser blackback, black-headed gull, oystercatcher, swift.<\/p>\n

\"Set-aside<\/a>
Set-aside meadow beside saltmarsh on estuary of La Rance. Egrets, Kestrel, Turtle-Dove, Wood Pigeon, Wren, Swallow, House Martin. Butterflies in the meadow Large White, a Fritillary, Small Skipper, Meadow Brown, Gatekeeper, Marbled White.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In St Malo, even the soft toys are marine invertebrates: lobsters and crabs, dressed in nautical striped shirts. The people are called Malouines: Malvinas in Spanish. The name is from Saint MacLaw, presumably a Scot, though that might not be sufficient grounds to claim that Las Malvinas, the ‘St-Maloers’ \u2013 better known as the Falkland … Continue reading Coastal Life: St Malo, Brittany, France (7 July 2014)<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[90,25],"tags":[440,439,441,438],"class_list":["post-884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natural-history","category-wetlands","tag-caloplaca-marina","tag-saltmarsh","tag-verrucaria-maura","tag-zonation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=884"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":905,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884\/revisions\/905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}