{"id":3969,"date":"2017-08-14T21:17:15","date_gmt":"2017-08-14T21:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/?p=3969"},"modified":"2018-01-09T21:21:41","modified_gmt":"2018-01-09T21:21:41","slug":"broomrape-butterfly-orchids-and-barn-owls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/?p=3969","title":{"rendered":"Broomrape, Butterfly Orchids and Barn Owls"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Carrot

Carrot Broomrape parasitizing a Wild Carrot, Durlston Country Park.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Carrot

Carrot Broomrape<\/p><\/div>\n

In common with other species of Broomrape the roots penetrates the host’s tissue and draws nutrients from it. With no need for chlorophyll the Broomrape lacks green pigment and the leaves have been reduced to withered brown scales.<\/p>\n

Key features that help to separate Carrot Broomrape from the more widespread Common Broomrape include the pronounced yellowish bosses on the lower corolla lip and the purple stigma lobes that are partially united.<\/p>\n

\"Yellow

Yellow Brain Fungus<\/p><\/div>\n

Yellow Brain Fungus, again at Durlston on a dead branch in one of the woodlands.<\/p>\n

\"Greater

Greater Butterfly Orchid, Badbury Rings – Dorset.<\/p><\/div>\n

Surprisingly common on the ditches to the northern side of one of our most spectacular Iron Age Hill Forts.<\/p>\n

\"Barn

Barn Owl quartering the meadows close to Corfe Castle<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Barn

Barn Owl close to Corfe Castle<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Barn

Barn Owl watching and waiting<\/p><\/div>\n

Later on in the evening this particular bird moved on from quartering the meadows for voles and mice to nest raiding. A bit grisly watching the Barn Owl carrying young Blackbird’s back hopefully these were replaced by a 2nd brood.<\/p>\n

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In common with other species of Broomrape the roots penetrates the host’s tissue and draws nutrients from it. With no need for chlorophyll the Broomrape lacks green pigment and the leaves have been reduced to withered brown scales. Key features that help to separate Carrot Read More …<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4833,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108,183],"tags":[276,536,661,9,237,731],"class_list":["post-3969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-birds","category-flora","tag-barn-owl","tag-carrot-broomrape","tag-corfe-castle","tag-greater-butterfly-orchid","tag-wild-carrot","tag-yellow-brain-fungus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3969","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=3969"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4843,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3969\/revisions\/4843"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}