{"id":2332,"date":"2015-06-05T20:39:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-05T20:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/?p=2332"},"modified":"2015-06-05T20:39:59","modified_gmt":"2015-06-05T20:39:59","slug":"red-kites-and-watercress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/?p=2332","title":{"rendered":"Red Kites and Watercress"},"content":{"rendered":"<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\/2015\/06\/DSC_1805.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"One of the Chiltern&#39;s Red Kites.\" 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=\"One of the Chiltern&#39;s Red Kites.\" src=\"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSC_1805_thumb.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"600\">One of the Chiltern\u2019s Red Kites. A magnificent bird but unfortunately on this occasion the bright overcast conditions doesn\u2019t make for a great photograph.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"600\"><a href=\"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/P1040767.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Watercress Beds at Ewelme. \" 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=\"Watercress Beds at Ewelme. \" src=\"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/P1040767_thumb.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"600\">Watercress Beds at Ewelme. <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"600\"><a href=\"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/P1040768.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Watercress in the crystal clear water of Ewelme Brook\" 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=\"Watercress in the crystal clear water of Ewelme Brook\" src=\"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/P1040768_thumb.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"600\">Looking rather leggy the Watercress is no longer grown for market and the beds are now managed as a local nature reserve. Surprisingly the beds were abandoned in 1988 due to a decline in water quality.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"600\"><a href=\"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/P1040770.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Watercress Beds\" 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=\"Watercress Beds\" src=\"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/P1040770_thumb.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"600\">The crystal clear water of Ewelme Brook. Presumably the decline in quality was due to run off from the adjacent road. <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"600\"><a href=\"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/P1040773-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"For further information left click the noticeboard.\" 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=\"For further information left click the noticeboard.\" src=\"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/P1040773-1_thumb.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"600\">Unfortunately we didn\u2019t see any Water Voles however plenty of Blackcaps, Grey Wagtails, Brimstone and Peacock Butterflies.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the Chiltern\u2019s Red Kites. A magnificent bird but unfortunately on this occasion the bright overcast conditions doesn\u2019t make for a great photograph. Watercress Beds at Ewelme. Looking rather leggy the Watercress is no longer grown for market and the beds are now managed <span class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"more-link btn btn-transparent\" href=\"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/?p=2332\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108,183,3],"tags":[512,510,511],"class_list":["post-2332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-flora","category-natural-history","tag-ewelme","tag-red-kite","tag-watercress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2332","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=2332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2333,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2332\/revisions\/2333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}