{"id":2319,"date":"2016-03-31T18:33:43","date_gmt":"2016-03-31T18:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?p=2319"},"modified":"2016-03-31T18:34:22","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T18:34:22","slug":"easter-sightings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?p=2319","title":{"rendered":"Easter sightings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Local walks over the Easter break have revealed some of the usual suspects. No real surprises, but it is just nice to see familiar species and some at more or less the time we might expect to see them.\u00a0 However, the cowslips at the Balk area near to Stanley Flash are perhaps slightly early with some flowers beginning to go over. \u00a0At the flash itself there are abundant goat willows in flower providing a useful nectar source for insects such as over wintering Peacock butterflies and bees although none where seen on my walks this time.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2322\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?attachment_id=2322\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2322\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2322\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2322\" src=\"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC01350.5.l.s.cl_.jpg\" alt=\"Goat willow\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC01350.5.l.s.cl_.jpg 600w, https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC01350.5.l.s.cl_-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC01350.5.l.s.cl_-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2322\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Goat willow<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2323\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?attachment_id=2323\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2323\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2323\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2323\" src=\"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC01367.2.jpg\" alt=\"Cowslip\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC01367.2.jpg 600w, https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC01367.2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC01367.2-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2323\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cowslip<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At Bretton Park, wood anemone are providing a welcome sight in the woodland around the upper lake.\u00a0 This plant can be an indicator of ancient woodland, which is an area that has been treed in some way for around four hundred years and therefore they are an irreplaceable and valuable habitat.\u00a0 Occasionally wood anemone may also be found in some of the district\u2019s meadows or hedge banks and here it is possible they may be \u2018ghosts plants\u2019 from a long lost woodland. \u00a0Also, the upper and lower lakes at Bretton Park have once again attracted frogs to spawn.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2320\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?attachment_id=2320\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2320\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2320\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2320\" src=\"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/30.45-DSCF2004-copy.jpg\" alt=\"Wood anemone\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/30.45-DSCF2004-copy.jpg 600w, https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/30.45-DSCF2004-copy-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/30.45-DSCF2004-copy-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2320\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wood anemone<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2321\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?attachment_id=2321\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2321\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2321\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2321\" src=\"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSCF3319.4.c.jpg\" alt=\"Frogspawn\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSCF3319.4.c.jpg 600w, https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSCF3319.4.c-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSCF3319.4.c-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2321\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Frogspawn at Bretton CP<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local walks over the Easter break have revealed some of the usual suspects. No real surprises, but it is just nice to see familiar species and some at more or less the time we might expect to see them.\u00a0 However, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?p=2319\">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":[167,29,88,57,197],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2319"}],"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=2319"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2325,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2319\/revisions\/2325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}