{"id":1113,"date":"2013-06-18T20:01:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-18T20:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/?p=1113"},"modified":"2014-06-30T21:51:50","modified_gmt":"2014-06-30T21:51:50","slug":"badbury-rings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/?p=1113","title":{"rendered":"Badbury Rings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another Iron Age hill fort and another outstanding site. <\/p>\n<p>Really enjoyable walking around admiring the views across the Dorset countryside whilst listening to Cuckoos calling from the woodland, Skylarks overhead and Yellowhammers in the adjacent fields. <\/p>\n<p>Plenty of Orchids around. The sheer number of Greater Butterfly Orchids was a surprise. Fortunately I managed to find a few in perfect condition.&#160; <\/p>\n<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" width=\"600\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"600\"><a href=\"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/DSC_5755.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Greater Butterfly Orchid\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Greater Butterfly Orchid\" src=\"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/DSC_5755_thumb.jpg\" width=\"399\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a>           <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Greater Butterfly Orchid growing on the ramparts of the Iron Age Hill Fort<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"600\"><a href=\"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/P1000951.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Brimstone Butterfly\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Brimstone Butterfly\" src=\"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/P1000951_thumb.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/>             <br \/><\/a>Male Brimstone Butterfly nectaring on a hawkbit<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"600\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Carrot Broomrape\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px auto; border-left: 0px; display: block; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Carrot Broomrape\" src=\"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/P1010030_thumb.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" \/>          <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">The parasitic Carrot Broomrape \u2013 another rare inhabitant of chalk downs <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" width=\"600\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"300\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Common Twayblade\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Common Twayblade\" src=\"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/P1000943_thumb.jpg\" width=\"290\" height=\"435\" \/>           <br \/>Common Twayblade<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"300\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Flowers of the Common Twayblade\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Flowers of the Common Twayblade\" src=\"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/P1000956_thumb.jpg\" width=\"290\" height=\"435\" \/>           <br \/>Twa (or 2) blades \u2013 an appropriate name<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" width=\"600\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"600\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"The far more familiar Common Spotted Orchid\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"The far more familiar Common Spotted Orchid\" src=\"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/P1000918_thumb.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/>           <br \/>Common Spotted Orchid on one of the ramparts. <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another Iron Age hill fort and another outstanding site. Really enjoyable walking around admiring the views across the Dorset countryside whilst listening to Cuckoos calling from the woodland, Skylarks overhead and Yellowhammers in the adjacent fields. Plenty of Orchids around. The sheer number of Greater <span class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"more-link btn btn-transparent\" href=\"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/?p=1113\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[183],"tags":[334,335,336,337,187,9],"class_list":["post-1113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-flora","tag-badbury-rings","tag-brimstone-butterfly","tag-broomrape","tag-common-spotted-orchid","tag-common-twayblade","tag-greater-butterfly-orchid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1114,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113\/revisions\/1114"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}