{"id":2197,"date":"2015-07-07T18:19:07","date_gmt":"2015-07-07T18:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?p=2197"},"modified":"2015-07-21T18:29:11","modified_gmt":"2015-07-21T18:29:11","slug":"2197","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?p=2197","title":{"rendered":"RSPB Old Moor flower walk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Primarily a bird watching paradise, Old Moor has developed into a varied habitat for wildflowers, butterflies, damselflies and dragonflies.\u00a0\u00a0 On our short walk today we were able to enjoy meadow brown butterflies, ringlets and small skippers amongst the purple loose-strife, great willowherb, meadowsweet, bush vetch and meadow vetchling. Marsh (hybrid) orchids and common spotted orchids were coming to their end but marsh bedstraw, ribbed melilot and common centaury were just coming into flower.\u00a0 The ponds were enriched with common blue and blue tailed damsel flies hovering above the water lilies, broad leaved pondweed and yellow iris.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2200\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?attachment_id=2200\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2200\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2200\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2200\" src=\"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/SMSKIPPER.jpg\" alt=\"Small skipper\" width=\"650\" height=\"491\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/SMSKIPPER.jpg 650w, https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/SMSKIPPER-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/SMSKIPPER-397x300.jpg 397w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2200\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Small skipper<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2199\" style=\"width: 667px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?attachment_id=2199\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2199\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2199\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2199\" src=\"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/GTWILLOWHERB.jpg\" alt=\"Greater willowherb\" width=\"657\" height=\"493\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/GTWILLOWHERB.jpg 657w, https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/GTWILLOWHERB-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/GTWILLOWHERB-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 657px) 100vw, 657px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2199\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Greater willowherb<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2198\" style=\"width: 654px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?attachment_id=2198\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2198\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2198\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2198\" src=\"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/CENTAURY.jpg\" alt=\"common centaury\" width=\"644\" height=\"429\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/CENTAURY.jpg 644w, https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/CENTAURY-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/CENTAURY-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 644px) 100vw, 644px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2198\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">common centaury<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Primarily a bird watching paradise, Old Moor has developed into a varied habitat for wildflowers, butterflies, damselflies and dragonflies.\u00a0\u00a0 On our short walk today we were able to enjoy meadow brown butterflies, ringlets and small skippers amongst the purple loose-strife, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?p=2197\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,32],"tags":[203,204,151],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197"}],"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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2197"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2203,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197\/revisions\/2203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}