{"id":3556,"date":"2016-09-15T09:10:47","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T09:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/?p=3556"},"modified":"2016-09-03T10:50:14","modified_gmt":"2016-09-03T10:50:14","slug":"bringing-it-all-back-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/?p=3556","title":{"rendered":"Bringing It All Back Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a title=\"DSC_4681.jpg\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ianworsley\/28823238670\/in\/datetaken-family\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/c7.staticflickr.com\/9\/8474\/28823238670_12873bacf4_c.jpg\" alt=\"Holly Blue\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Turning out to be a good year for the Holly Blue. This one appeared in the back garden feeding on Hemp Agrimony before flying off into the Ivy climbing up the garden fence.\u00a0With plenty of mature Ivy in the neighbouring gardens hopefully the start of a small colony.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\u00a0<a title=\"DSC_4713.jpg\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ianworsley\/28823240180\/in\/datetaken-family\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/c5.staticflickr.com\/9\/8390\/28823240180_4f2fccaebd_c.jpg\" alt=\"Holly Blue feeding on Hemp Agrimony\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Gradually spreading north from its traditional strongholds in southern England the Holly Blue is one of the winners in our gradually warming climate.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\u00a0<a title=\"P1080124.jpg\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ianworsley\/29109933085\/in\/datetaken-family\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/c6.staticflickr.com\/9\/8310\/29109933085_15fe4fc0ea.jpg\" alt=\"Large-flowered Hemp-Nettle\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td>\u00a0<a title=\"P1080131.jpg\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ianworsley\/29032802501\/in\/datetaken-family\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/c6.staticflickr.com\/9\/8205\/29032802501_9319c7c99c.jpg\" alt=\"Large-flowered Hemp-Nettle\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Large-flowered Hemp-Nettle on Swinton Moss.<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0Increasingly rare &#8211; especially within Salford.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a title=\"DSC_4495.jpg\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ianworsley\/28005070166\/in\/datetaken-family\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/c7.staticflickr.com\/8\/7085\/28005070166_71e1f45732_c.jpg\" alt=\"Male Banded Demoiselle\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Male Banded Demoiselle on the bank of the River Mersey, close to Chorlton Water Park.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\u00a0<a title=\"DSC_4499.jpg\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ianworsley\/28039844175\/in\/datetaken-family\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/c8.staticflickr.com\/8\/7384\/28039844175_f95679fd7c_c.jpg\" alt=\"Female Banded Demoiselle\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Female Banded Demoiselle<\/p>\n<p>Noticeable that with the Environment Agency no longer cutting back the vegetation\u00a0there&#8217;s been a significant increase in the number of insects and voles along the riverbank. Now a daily occurrence to see the resident Kestrels hunting along the banks. Also plenty of Kingfishers and Grey Wagtails. With the approach of Autumn we&#8217;re back to pre-dawn dog walks. First siting on a Mink running along the riverbank for several months this morning.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turning out to be a good year for the Holly Blue. This one appeared in the back garden feeding on Hemp Agrimony before flying off into the Ivy climbing up the garden fence.\u00a0With plenty of mature Ivy in the neighbouring gardens hopefully the start of <span class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"more-link btn btn-transparent\" href=\"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/?p=3556\">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":[183,4],"tags":[210,655,657],"class_list":["post-3556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flora","category-insects","tag-banded-demoiselle","tag-holly-blue","tag-large-flowered-hemp-nettle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3556","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=3556"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3606,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3556\/revisions\/3606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}