{"id":5376,"date":"2025-01-06T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=5376"},"modified":"2025-04-11T09:40:25","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T08:40:25","slug":"wildlife-pond-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=5376","title":{"rendered":"Wildlife Pond Update"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>With some significant rain over recent days, the pond is filling up nicely. Probably only another 100 &#8211; 150mm to go before it can be considered &#8216;full&#8217;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_1796-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5377\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_1796-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_1796-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_1796-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_1796-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_1796-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_1796-400x300.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Water level in pond on 6th January 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>(The crescent shape of smooth water nearest the camera is a thin layer of ice.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Update 2025-04-10<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s been a <strong>very<\/strong> dry March and the pond is now almost empty, with just a small puddle at the far side. There&#8217;s some rain forecast in the next few days so it will be interesting to see if that&#8217;s enough to create some standing water again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_4838-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5554\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_4838-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_4838-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_4838-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_4838-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_4838-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_4838-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Water level in pond on 10th April 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With some significant rain over recent days, the pond is filling up nicely. Probably only another 100 &#8211; 150mm to go before it can be considered &#8216;full&#8217;. (The crescent shape of smooth water nearest the camera is a thin layer &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=5376\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[88,69,73,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garden","category-landscaping","category-living-in-the-house","category-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5376"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5555,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5376\/revisions\/5555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}