{"id":333,"date":"2023-08-02T11:45:36","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T10:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sccan.scot\/easterbreichwood\/?p=333"},"modified":"2023-08-17T14:41:26","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T13:41:26","slug":"summer-in-the-woodland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sccan.scot\/easterbreichwood\/2023\/08\/02\/summer-in-the-woodland\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer in the woodland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It\u2019s been a good summer for damselflies \u2013 we’ve seen emeralds, common blue and blue tailed.\u00a0 You can find them if you look closely at the bull rushes round the pond especially on a sunny evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Much easier to see are the larger dragonflies \u2013 but we\u2019ve only seen a couple of these. They darted down the river too quickly to identify the species or get a photo, but we\u2019ll definitely look out for more now we know they\u2019re here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s been barnowls nesting in the beech trees near the wood, otters have been seen in the river and a family of badgers have been been spotted making their way towards the wood in the late evening.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The orchids were quite late this year \u2013 perhaps because of the really dry June.  We\u2019ve always seen common orchids but this year we noticed helleborine (weed orchid) as well.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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That dry June followed by a very wet July led to a huge amount of vegetation growth.  A hastily arranged maintenance day in mid-July made really good progress in cutting back a lot of the grass and thistles that were overhanging the main path.  And Grant\u2019s new mower made in-roads on the grass paths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We planted some fruit trees earlier in the year. Unfortunately some of them were stolen but the remaining ones are settling in well.  We\u2019ve mulched them and put deer protection around them. We\u2019re still hopeful our very \u2018mini-orchard\u2019 will fruit in a few years\u2019 time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

The wet windy weather lifted just enough to do a Big Butterfly Count at the end of July and we found red admirals, ringlets, meadow brown and large and small whites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While we were counting butterflies, the bees and ladybirds were out as well \u2013 six spotted ladybirds and white tailed, red tailed and carder bumblebees as well as and honey-bees. \u00a0The markings on the male red-tailed look like they’ve got a moustache – and they’ve got hairy legs too!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here\u2019s a list of everything we noted in July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  • Blackcap<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Blackbird<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Chiff chaff<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Wren<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Chaffinch<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Song thrush<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Buzzard<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Tree creeper<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Goldcrest<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Barn owl<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Willow warbler<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Redstart<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Bullfinch<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Robin<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Pigeon<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Garden warbler<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Long tailed tit<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Magpie<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Great tit<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Heron<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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    • Ladybird<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Dragonfly<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Damselfly \u2013 common blue<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Damselfly \u2013 emerald<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • White tailed bees<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Red tailed bees<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Honey bees<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Ringlets<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Red admirals<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Small white<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Large white<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Meadow brown<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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      • Otter<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • badger<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • frog<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Helleborine (weed orchid)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Common orchid<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

        Some of the photos of woodland wildlife in July<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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        It\u2019s been a good summer for damselflies \u2013 we’ve seen emeralds, common blue and blue tailed.\u00a0 You can find them if you look closely at the bull rushes round the pond especially on a sunny evening. Much easier to see are the larger dragonflies \u2013 but we\u2019ve only seen a couple of these. They darted…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":355,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-updates","tw-post-has-image-16-9"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sccan.scot\/easterbreichwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sccan.scot\/easterbreichwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sccan.scot\/easterbreichwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sccan.scot\/easterbreichwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sccan.scot\/easterbreichwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/sccan.scot\/easterbreichwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":397,"href":"https:\/\/sccan.scot\/easterbreichwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions\/397"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sccan.scot\/easterbreichwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sccan.scot\/easterbreichwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sccan.scot\/easterbreichwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sccan.scot\/easterbreichwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}