{"id":3541,"date":"2017-10-29T15:31:14","date_gmt":"2017-10-29T14:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hlbphotography.com\/blog\/?p=3541"},"modified":"2017-10-29T16:37:12","modified_gmt":"2017-10-29T15:37:12","slug":"my-patch-august-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hlbphotography.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/my-patch-august-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"My Patch &#8211; August 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3544\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hlbphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/WaterEatonAugust2017-03-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.hlbphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/WaterEatonAugust2017-03-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.hlbphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/WaterEatonAugust2017-03-449x300.jpg 449w, http:\/\/www.hlbphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/WaterEatonAugust2017-03.jpg 482w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>August 4th &#8211; The starlings are growing, and becoming noisier by the day. They are becoming rather bossy!<\/p>\n<p>There have been bananas put in the garden area and today there was a speckled wood feeding on them and&nbsp;6 red admirals on the buddleia.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>August 7th &#8211;&nbsp;Tonight I saw &#8216;Strike&#8217;. A starling that was born last year, it has two white tail feathers so is fairly identifiable. Its good to know that he\/she is still around.&nbsp;50 swallows feeding over the field was a great sight. They have suddenly appeared but I think that is due to the rapeseed crops being harvested so they are now feeding over the remaining crop fields.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>August 13th &#8211; this afternoon \/ evening the farmer began to harvest the Wheat crop.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>August 15th &#8211; they have finished harvesting the 126 acres and are now bailing. Tomorrow I will be able to walk freely across the field.&nbsp;A buzzard flew up from a pile of straw into the copse; the first one I have seen since April.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>August 31st &#8211; Tonight I took my first walk&nbsp;to the river at bottom of field. Some of the path is a little over grown so I had to walk part of the way in the next field. I&#8217;m glad I did; as I came out from the trees a brown hare ran from the field back into the trees, it took me by surprise.&nbsp;The river is looking quite over grown and it is difficult to see into it. I might need to do a little tidying of the banks over winter just so there are some small paths to the river so it&#8217;s easier to see. At the moment it&#8217;s actually difficult to tell where the edge of the bank was so I had to be a little cautious. I did however see 2 mute swan, a moorhen and most surprising of all a kingfisher flew by \ud83d\ude42 I accidentally discovered a rabbit hole when I nearly lost my foot down it! There are lots of tunnels through the vegetation that surround the field, I would guess most are rabbit, mice \/ rats. There are also some tyres and rubbish that needs collecting!<\/p>\n<p>On my walk back&nbsp;42 canada geese flew over \ud83d\ude42<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3545 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hlbphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/WaterEatonAugust2017-75-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.hlbphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/WaterEatonAugust2017-75-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.hlbphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/WaterEatonAugust2017-75-449x300.jpg 449w, http:\/\/www.hlbphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/WaterEatonAugust2017-75.jpg 482w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><!-- index.php -->\n<div\n\tclass=\"ngg-galleryoverview ngg-ajax-pagination-none\"\n\tid=\"ngg-gallery-d24212869f79eaacdcb33c29a2a43d19-1\">\n\n    \t<div class=\"slideshowlink\">\n        <a 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They are becoming rather bossy! There have been bananas put in the garden area and today there was a speckled wood feeding on them and&nbsp;6 red admirals &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hlbphotography.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/my-patch-august-2017\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[286],"tags":[827,639,499,507,442],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hlbphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3541"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hlbphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hlbphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hlbphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hlbphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3541"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.hlbphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3548,"href":"http:\/\/www.hlbphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3541\/revisions\/3548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hlbphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hlbphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hlbphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}