{"id":2580,"date":"2015-08-23T19:06:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-23T19:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/?p=2580"},"modified":"2015-08-23T19:24:17","modified_gmt":"2015-08-23T19:24:17","slug":"in-the-meadow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/?p=2580","title":{"rendered":"In the Meadow"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" width=\"600\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"600\"><a href=\"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/P1050476.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"Marbled White Butterflies\" src=\"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/P1050476_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Marbled White Butterflies\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"600\">Marbled Whites mating on a Yarrow flowerhead at Durlston Country Park, Dorset.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"600\"><a href=\"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/P1050469.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"Marbled Whites mating\" src=\"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/P1050469_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Marbled Whites mating\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"600\">An incredible sight with clouds of Marbled Whites erupting from a kaleidoscope of flowers as we walked slowly through the meadows.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"600\"><a href=\"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/P1050647.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"Summer Hay Meadow at Durlston Country Park\" src=\"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/P1050647_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Summer Hay Meadow at Durlston Country Park\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"600\"><a href=\"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/P1050698.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"The statuesque Woolly Thistle\" src=\"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/P1050698_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"The statuesque Woolly Thistle\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"600\">Heading uphill towards the western boundary the summer pasture was punctuated by huge and impressive Woolly Thistles.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"600\"><a href=\"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/P1050652.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"Six-spot Burnet Moths nectaring on Knapweed. \" src=\"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/P1050652_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Six-spot Burnet Moths nectaring on Knapweed. \" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"600\">Back along the SW coast path and dropping down into a steep gully plenty of Six-spot Burnet Moths to be found nectaring on Knapweed.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"600\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"300\"><a href=\"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/P1050687.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"Small Scabious \" src=\"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/P1050687_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Small Scabious \" width=\"298\" height=\"199\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"300\"><a href=\"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/P1050658.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"Field Scabious\" src=\"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/P1050658_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Field Scabious\" width=\"298\" height=\"199\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"300\">Small Scabious \u2013 one of several large patches.<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"300\">The more common Field Scabious.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"300\"><a href=\"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/P1050673.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"Greater Knapweed\" src=\"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/P1050673_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Greater Knapweed\" width=\"298\" height=\"199\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"300\"><a href=\"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/P1050705.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"Carline Thistle\" src=\"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/P1050705_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Carline Thistle\" width=\"298\" height=\"199\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"300\">Greater Knapweed<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"300\">Carline Thistle<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marbled Whites mating on a Yarrow flowerhead at Durlston Country Park, Dorset. 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