{"id":734,"date":"2012-08-20T21:47:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T21:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/?p=734"},"modified":"2020-04-04T16:23:53","modified_gmt":"2020-04-04T16:23:53","slug":"highfield-moss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/?p=734","title":{"rendered":"Highfield Moss"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" width=\"600\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"600\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; padding-top: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"Sunshine and showers\" src=\"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/P1060606_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Sunshine and showers\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nAnother day of sunshine and torrential downpours. Spear Thistles growing at the edge of one of the fields of Barley between \u201cThe Travellers Rest\u201d and Highfield Moss.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"600\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"300\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; padding-top: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"Meadow Grasshopper\" src=\"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/DSC_2094-Edit_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Meadow Grasshopper\" width=\"290\" height=\"437\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nYoung Meadow Grasshopper on Purple Moor Grass<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"300\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; padding-top: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"Marsh Gentian at its last remaining stronghold in north-west England\" src=\"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/P1060588_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Marsh Gentian\" width=\"290\" height=\"435\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nMarsh Gentian protesting about the lack of sunshine.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"600\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"600\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; padding-top: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"Liverpool-Manchester Railway\" src=\"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/P1060583_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Liverpool-Manchester Railway\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nThe Liverpool \u2013 Manchester railway bisecting Highfield Moss. Hard to imagine that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stephenson%27s_Rocket\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stevenson\u2019s Rocket<\/a> travelled up and down here back in the 1830\u2019s launching the era of the Steam Railways.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"600\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; padding-top: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"Highfield Moss\" src=\"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/P1060564_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Highfield Moss\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nOne of the 2 remaining pools of open water on Highfield Moss. In the foreground hopefully the carpet of Sphagnum Moss and Round-leaved Sundews can just about be made out.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"600\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"300\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/P1060543.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; padding-top: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"Sphagnum recurvum\" src=\"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/P1060543_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Sphagnum recurvum\" width=\"290\" height=\"194\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a>Probably Sphagnum recurvum<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">One of the 150+ species of Sphagnum Moss !<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"300\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; padding-top: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"Round-leaved Sundew\" src=\"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/DSC_2075_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Round-leaved Sundew\" width=\"290\" height=\"193\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nRound-leaved Sundew<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8211; the most widespread of the 3 Sundews found in the UK<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"600\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"300\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; padding-top: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"Cross leaved Heath\" src=\"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/P1060557_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Cross leaved Heath\" width=\"290\" height=\"435\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nCross leaved Heath<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"300\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; padding-top: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"Field Pansy\" src=\"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/P1060611_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Field Pansy\" width=\"290\" height=\"435\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nField Pansy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another day of sunshine and torrential downpours. Spear Thistles growing at the edge of one of the fields of Barley between \u201cThe Travellers Rest\u201d and Highfield Moss. 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