{"id":2096,"date":"2015-05-17T19:56:05","date_gmt":"2015-05-17T19:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?p=2096"},"modified":"2015-05-18T12:42:21","modified_gmt":"2015-05-18T12:42:21","slug":"may-field-meeting-rabbit-ings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?p=2096","title":{"rendered":"May field Meeting: Rabbit Ings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Despite blustery, cold conditions more reminiscent of November than early May, we had a good walk around Rabbit Ings, Royston. This was the first visit we have made to this site as a group and, given warmer conditions, I think we would have notched up a few more species than we did. It was remarkable that we managed any butterflies at all! \u00a0Here is a list of what we saw, compiled by Sue Gaynor.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Flowers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">creeping buttercup, common vetch, salad burnet, ribwort plantain, red campion, broom, birds-foot trefoil, black medick, greater stitchwort, comfrey, green alkanet, celery-leaved buttercup, forget-me-not, common mouse-ear, charlock, common field speedwell, sheep sorrel, hairy tare<\/p>\n<p><strong>Birds<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">wren, blackcap, whitethroat, reed bunting, redshank (flying over), common swift, kestrel, cuckoo (1 calling), great tit, skylark, willow warbler, sand martin (1)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Butterflies<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>dingy skipper (1), small copper (2)<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2101\" style=\"width: 910px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?attachment_id=2101\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2101\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2101\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2101\" src=\"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSKIP0010.jpg\" alt=\"Dingy Skipper\" width=\"900\" height=\"598\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSKIP0010.jpg 900w, https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSKIP0010-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSKIP0010-452x300.jpg 452w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2101\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dingy Skipper<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Insects<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>sloe bug (hairy shield bug)<\/p>\n<p>Richard Bell created this excellent short video of our walk and it will certainly give you a feel for the wind we encountered!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Rabbit Ings\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/030SiHXR6g8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite blustery, cold conditions more reminiscent of November than early May, we had a good walk around Rabbit Ings, Royston. This was the first visit we have made to this site as a group and, given warmer conditions, I think &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?p=2096\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20,32],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2096"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2096"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2104,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2096\/revisions\/2104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}