{"id":3897,"date":"2020-09-22T08:40:10","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T08:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?p=3897"},"modified":"2020-09-22T08:41:44","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T08:41:44","slug":"3897","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?p=3897","title":{"rendered":"When is Autumn?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Meteorological autumn was on 1st September and astronomical autumn has entered the calendar this week.\u00a0 However, the natural world around us has already started to spirit away our memorable summer into the four seasons departure lounge.<\/p>\n

Surrounding hedgerows are laden with hawthorn berries and rose hips; hopefully these will attract flocks of winter visitors such as fieldfares and redwings provided the local blackbirds remember to leave them some.\u00a0\u00a0 At this time of year necklaces of hedge bindweed bugle the close of this plant\u2019s beauty and the beast\u2019s summer season (see photo).\u00a0 In the wild the flowers are visited by insect pollinators, but elsewhere, especially in gardens,\u00a0 it may be difficult to control and quickly grow to the exclusion of other plants. \u00a0Local oaks appear to have produced a bumper crop of acorns – a bounty for seed eating animals and birds such as squirrels and jays during the winter.<\/p>\n

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.hedge bindweed<\/p><\/div>\n

Elsewhere on my walks around Wrenthorpe, Brandy Carr and Carr Gate there is a further changing of the guard in the species of butterflies.\u00a0 Small numbers of speckled wood and small white still hold on faithfully to shortening days of fading sunlight albeit in reducing numbers.\u00a0 In the garden a red admiral has been a regular visitor to the flowers of the buddleia x weyeriana<\/em> during the recent warm spell, together with a comma nectaring on ivy flowers in readiness for hibernation.<\/p>\n

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comma on ivy<\/p><\/div>\n

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red admiral<\/p><\/div>\n

Now I wonder if the single swallow I saw flying over Jerry Clay Lane on Sunday will be the last one I see until next spring?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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