{"id":7136,"date":"2021-08-12T10:26:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T10:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/?p=7136"},"modified":"2022-02-15T10:53:26","modified_gmt":"2022-02-15T10:53:26","slug":"badbury-rings-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/?p=7136","title":{"rendered":"Badbury Rings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Badbury Rings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A superb example of an Iron Age hillfort and a scheduled ancient monument Badbury Rings<\/a> has survived as chalk downland largely unchanged for the past 2500 years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In early August the sun-drenched banks are a haven for insects with shelter to be found between the 3 rings (ramparts) on even the most windy days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Chalkhill Blue basking in the warmth of the sun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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With the brown females keeping low down several bright blue males patrolled the ramparts looking for opportunities to mate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Carline Thistle, a rich nectar source.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Brimstone<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Gatekeepers mating<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Gatekeeper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Common Blue (male)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Badbury Rings. A superb example of an Iron Age hillfort and a scheduled ancient monument Badbury Rings has survived as chalk downland largely unchanged for the past 2500 years. In early August the sun-drenched banks are a haven for insects with shelter to be found Read More …<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,15,3],"tags":[334,706,98,456,1080,447,1079],"class_list":["post-7136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-insects","category-landscapes","category-natural-history","tag-badbury-rings","tag-brimstone","tag-carline-thistle","tag-chalkhill-blue","tag-common-blue","tag-gatekeeper","tag-iron-age-hillfort"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7136","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=7136"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7489,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7136\/revisions\/7489"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}