{"id":164,"date":"2015-04-06T10:07:03","date_gmt":"2015-04-06T10:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rileygreen.co.uk\/?p=164"},"modified":"2015-04-06T17:30:41","modified_gmt":"2015-04-06T17:30:41","slug":"spring-again-riley-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rileygreen.co.uk\/?p=164","title":{"rendered":"Spring again, Riley Green"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before the sun broke through the Riley Green morning mist this Long Tailed Tit was perched on a Beech tree. Not sure if it was drinking from the water droplets or catching unsuspecting insects. It was with the usual gang of at least a dozen or so, none of them really giving the photographer much chance of a decent shot, forever on the move between quick snacks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rileygreen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/longtailtit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-180\" src=\"http:\/\/rileygreen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/longtailtit-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"longtailtit\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rileygreen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/longtailtit-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rileygreen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/longtailtit-1024x765.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rileygreen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/longtailtit.jpg 1488w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nLater in the afternoon, after a warm sun had encouraged these fat lambs to rush relentlessly around the fields, sometimes jumping two feet up in the air, fatigue takes over for some of them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rileygreen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/catherinegardenapril-004cut.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-181\" src=\"http:\/\/rileygreen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/catherinegardenapril-004cut-300x109.jpg\" alt=\"catherinegardenapril 004cut\" width=\"300\" height=\"109\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rileygreen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/catherinegardenapril-004cut-300x109.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rileygreen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/catherinegardenapril-004cut-1024x372.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This one basks in the sun, dreaming. Do we know just what a fat lamb might be dreaming? Maybe \u201cwhen I grow up I want to be just like Shaun the Sheep\u201d. Little does it know that within only a few weeks it will be off to market, and will soon be valuable Spring Lamb on the butcher\u2019s slab! (&amp; very nice too.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before the sun broke through the Riley Green morning mist this Long Tailed Tit was perched on a Beech tree. Not sure if it was drinking from the water droplets or catching unsuspecting insects. It was with the usual gang of at least a dozen or so, none of them really giving the photographer much &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/rileygreen.co.uk\/?p=164\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rileygreen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rileygreen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rileygreen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rileygreen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rileygreen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/rileygreen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184,"href":"https:\/\/rileygreen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions\/184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rileygreen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rileygreen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rileygreen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}