{"id":206,"date":"2011-09-09T14:05:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-09T14:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/?p=206"},"modified":"2020-04-02T20:46:41","modified_gmt":"2020-04-02T20:46:41","slug":"fenns-and-whixall-moss-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/?p=206","title":{"rendered":"Fenn’s and Whixall Moss"},"content":{"rendered":"

A bit of a catch up from a few weeks ago, 19th August to be precise. With it being a reasonably warm but breezy summer\u2019s day we headed off down the M56 and A49 to Shropshire. Ideally I was hoping we\u2019d catch up with the local population of Adders. Apparently there\u2019s so many of them on Fenn\u2019s Moss it\u2019s one of the few places you can reliably see them dancing in early Spring. On a warm summers day they\u2019ll be everywhere, or so we thought.<\/p>\n

When we arrived it soon became clear the site was buzzing, insects everywhere with a superb Hobby swooping down to pluck the dragonflies out of in mid air. Unfortunately the closest we got to an Adder was another Common Lizard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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\"Common
\nCommon Lizard<\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Plant-wise although surprisingly little out of the normal the moss looked magnificent with Cross leaved Heath and Ling in full bloom.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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\"Cross
\nCross leaved Heath<\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Good to see plenty of Bog Rosemary, one of the real mossland specialities.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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\"Bog
\nBog Rosemary<\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

On the way out we came across a yet to be identified mushroom. At the moment I haven\u2019t got a clue what it is but hopefully the scaly surface will prove to be a distinctive feature.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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\"Unknown
\nScaly Earthball?<\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Seems incredible that it\u2019s only 20 years since peat was being cut from Whixall Moss.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"Peat<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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A bit of a catch up from a few weeks ago, 19th August to be precise. With it being a reasonably warm but breezy summer\u2019s day we headed off down the M56 and A49 to Shropshire. Ideally I was hoping we\u2019d catch up with the Read More …<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[183,59,58],"tags":[66,63,67,64,68,65],"class_list":["post-206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-flora","category-fungi","category-reptiles","tag-bog-rosemary","tag-common-lizard","tag-cross-leaved-heath","tag-fenns-moss","tag-peat-cutting","tag-whixall-moss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206","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=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6326,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions\/6326"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}