{"id":7027,"date":"2020-08-14T11:38:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T11:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/?p=7027"},"modified":"2020-11-01T11:40:25","modified_gmt":"2020-11-01T11:40:25","slug":"in-summers-that-have-been","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/?p=7027","title":{"rendered":"In summers that have been…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Scabious, Yarrow and Wild Carrots, Durlston Country Park<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I sit beside the fire and think of all that I have seen, of meadow-flowers and butterflies in summers that have been; Of yellow leaves and gossamer in autumns that there were, with morning mist and silver sun and wind upon my hair. J.R.R. Tolkein Lord of The Rings<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wheatears feeding up on the plentiful supply of insects to be found in the Hawthorn scrub.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Watching the rain fall in early November whilst updating the blog and recording a few highlights from a mid August visit to Durlston Country Park and summer suddenly seems a long, long time ago. Perhaps the Wheatears had the right idea – overwintering in subtropical Africa does have a certain appeal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Greater Knapweed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Despite the drought like conditions of mid-August a few of the tougher species to be found still in flower.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Carline Thistle, Durlston Country Park<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Relatively common in the shallow soils towards the sea-cliffs the Carline Thistle tend to look dead at the best of times. Upon closer inspection the flowers have a passing resemblance to the Proteas of southern Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wheatear resting before continuing it’s long journey south.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Wall Brown basking on a drystone wall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Still a few Wall butterflies around however perhaps a little less common than in previous years. With a fondness for bare rocks and cow-pats the rough grassland of Durlston is ideal habitat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wall Brown<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A tired and worn Marbled White, <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Very few Marbled Whites around probably a bit late.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Old Man’s Beard<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Covering almost every bit of scrub and drystone wall incredible to see how well Old Man’s Beard grows within the sun-baked, shallow soils. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Autumn Lady’s Tresses <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

A few early Autumn Lady’s Tresses beginning to appear. Normally difficult to see amongst the dry grassland on this occasion the green flowerstalks were unusually conspicuous. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I sit beside the fire and think of all that I have seen, of meadow-flowers and butterflies in summers that have been; Of yellow leaves and gossamer in autumns that there were, with morning mist and silver sun and wind upon my hair. J.R.R. Tolkein Lord of The Rings Read More …<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6923,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108,183,4],"tags":[241,98,240,10,998,814,155,925,769,237,1017],"class_list":["post-7027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-birds","category-flora","category-insects","tag-autumn-ladys-tresses","tag-carline-thistle","tag-greater-knapweed","tag-marbled-white-butterfly","tag-old-mans-beard","tag-scabious","tag-wall-brown","tag-wall-butterfly","tag-wheatear","tag-wild-carrot","tag-yarrow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7027","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=7027"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7055,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7027\/revisions\/7055"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}