{"id":8834,"date":"2023-05-10T15:56:28","date_gmt":"2023-05-10T15:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=8834"},"modified":"2023-05-10T15:56:29","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T15:56:29","slug":"holly-blue-in-our-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/holly-blue-in-our-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Holly Blue in our Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sunday was quite pleasant and I spent some time in the garden, running in every so often to get my camera when I saw a tiny Holly Blue butterfly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tap on an image to see it in its gallery carousel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Holly Blue<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Speckled Wood<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Cherry Blossom<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Green Alkanet<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Earwig<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Clematis<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Holly Blues danced around the bushes and trees on the edges of our garden and usually disappeared into neighbouring gardens but a couple of times they settled. They are so small and when still on a plant they can so easily be passed over for a leaf such that several times I found myself focusing the camera on a leaf that was glinting in the sun. At one time there were 3 in the garden with two of them fluttering around each other and settling together high in the Hawthorn for a few seconds, presumably mating. One of them settled for a second or two low enough for me to get a photo of it so I think I can #celebrate that I have, at last, got a photo of one with its wings open. (#celebrate is this month’s theme for Bingley Camera Club. I think photos of Coronation celebrations are better suited to the theme though.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A few Orange-tip butterflies were spotted as was a Speckled Wood that settled on the Cherry Blossom on the ground. There is still a lot of blossom on the tree ready to make a pink carpet. Under the Cherry tree the blue flowers of the Green Alkanet looked pretty. I think it is supposed to be a weed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A while back I gave the Clematis a heavy, overdue prune and as a result last year we had almost no flowers on it. It is making up for it this year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sunday was quite pleasant and I spent some time in the garden, running in every so often to get my camera when I saw a tiny Holly Blue butterfly. Tap on an image to see it in its gallery carousel. The Holly Blues danced around the bushes and trees on the edges of our garden […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8842,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paul"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/R7_C3318.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3kGoX-2iu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8834"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8843,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8834\/revisions\/8843"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}