{"id":2426,"date":"2015-06-20T08:53:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-20T08:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/?p=2426"},"modified":"2015-06-20T08:57:10","modified_gmt":"2015-06-20T08:57:10","slug":"damsels-and-dragons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/?p=2426","title":{"rendered":"Damsels and Dragons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
\"Four-Spotted<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Four Spotted Chaser \u2013 Westhay Moor NNR, Somerset. <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"Black-tailed<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Black-tailed Skimmer soaking up the early morning sunshine on one of the droves at Westhay.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"One<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Another Four Spotted Chaser with this one being close by at Ham Wall. <\/p>\n

Remarkable to see hundreds of Four Spotted Chasers sheltering along the tree line. Surprisingly relatively few Hobbies. Plenty of Bitterns, Marsh Harriers and Egrets. Interesting to hear a particularly unusual Bittern that barked like a dog.  <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\"3<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
This should have been an amazing photograph of 3 Otters walking across a grassy footpath and dropping into the pool. Unfortunately our animal obsessed Border Collie also spotted them and with the Otters being so close restraining  him took priority. <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
\"Freshwater<\/a><\/td>\n\"Easy<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Freshwater mussel complete with an Otter tooth mark.<\/td>\nEasy come, easy go\u2026..thanks boy! <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
\"Common<\/a><\/td>\n\"Scorpion<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Common Blue Damselfly\u2019s mating.<\/td>\nThe bizarre Scorpion fly surprisingly common in the woodland.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Four Spotted Chaser \u2013 Westhay Moor NNR, Somerset. Black-tailed Skimmer soaking up the early morning sunshine on one of the droves at Westhay. Another Four Spotted Chaser with this one being close by at Ham Wall. Remarkable to see hundreds of Four Spotted Chasers sheltering Read More …<\/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":[4,51,401],"tags":[523,524,522,321,525,26],"class_list":["post-2426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insects","category-mammals","category-other","tag-black-tailed-skimmer","tag-common-blue-damselfly","tag-four-spotted-chaser","tag-freshwater-mussel","tag-scorpion-fly","tag-westhay-moor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2426","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=2426"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2428,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2426\/revisions\/2428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}