{"id":351,"date":"2012-02-19T10:49:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-19T10:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/?p=351"},"modified":"2020-04-04T09:38:58","modified_gmt":"2020-04-04T09:38:58","slug":"1st-day-of-spring-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/?p=351","title":{"rendered":"1st day of Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whilst officially Spring doesn\u2019t begin until mid March over the past couple of weeks its finally started to slowly arrive. In fact after spending a day walking around in the sunshine close to Morecambe Bay we\u2019ve decided that this year Spring arrived on the 19th February. With the temperature forecast to reach the dizzying heights of 15C later on this week it might even be overtaken by summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
\"Snowdrops
\nSnowdrops at Gait Barrow NNR<\/td>\n		\"Hazel
\nHazel catkins at Kenworthy Wood<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"Female
\nThe far smaller and almost insignificant female flower of the Hazel again at Kenworthy Wood<\/td>\n		\"Scarlet
\nScarlet Elfcup at Leighton Moss found between the causeway and lower hide on rotting Elder<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
\"Jelly
\n<\/em>Jelly Ear fungi on Elder at Leighton Moss<\/td>\n		\"Scarlet
\nScarlet Elfcups at Leighton Moss.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

There\u2019s also a similar Green Elfcup fungi that can be found in the limestone woodlands around the Silverdale area. Historically due to the green colouration it gave to timber it was highly prized by cabinet makers and other craftsmen. Fortunately the insensitively named Jews ear fungi has been rechristened as Jelly Ear in the more recently published reference books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Whilst officially Spring doesn\u2019t begin until mid March over the past couple of weeks its finally started to slowly arrive. In fact after spending a day walking around in the sunshine close to Morecambe Bay we\u2019ve decided that this year Spring arrived on the 19th Read More …<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":347,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[183,59],"tags":[31,120,121,61,54,122,119],"class_list":["post-351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-flora","category-fungi","tag-gait-barrows","tag-hazel-catkins","tag-hazel-flower","tag-jelly-ear","tag-kenworthy-wood","tag-scarlet-elf-cup","tag-snowdrops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351","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=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6372,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions\/6372"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}