{"id":1947,"date":"2015-02-12T13:24:53","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T13:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?p=1947"},"modified":"2015-02-12T13:25:38","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T13:25:38","slug":"spring-is-on-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?p=1947","title":{"rendered":"Spring is on the way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The recent cold biting north and north easterly winds may be persuading us to think it is still winter and to stay indoors in the warm.\u00a0 However, perhaps spring is closer than we think. \u00a0Indeed, this morning I watched a robin in the garden at Wrenthorpe busy collecting nesting material and taking it to an old nesting box at the back of the garden shed. Blue tits have also been \u2018viewing homes\u2019 before deciding on the best nest boxes for them.\u00a0 A surprise sighting yesterday in the garden was of two firecrests.\u00a0 Sadly, they did not stay long and I guess they will nest elsewhere.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?attachment_id=1948\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1948\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1948\" src=\"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/ROBIN001.jpg\" alt=\"Robin\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/ROBIN001.jpg 600w, https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/ROBIN001-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/ROBIN001-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Flowers are understandably scarce at the moment.\u00a0 However, recent visits toNostell Priory have been rewarded with seeing fantastic carpets of snowdrops<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?attachment_id=1949\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1949\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1949\" src=\"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/SNOWDROP001.jpg\" alt=\"Snowdrops at Nostell\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/SNOWDROP001.jpg 600w, https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/SNOWDROP001-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/SNOWDROP001-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent cold biting north and north easterly winds may be persuading us to think it is still winter and to stay indoors in the warm.\u00a0 However, perhaps spring is closer than we think. \u00a0Indeed, this morning I watched a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?p=1947\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[32],"tags":[150,52,57],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1947"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1951,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947\/revisions\/1951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}