{"id":541,"date":"2021-06-15T21:34:17","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T20:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/helenadamson\/?p=541"},"modified":"2021-06-15T21:34:18","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T20:34:18","slug":"a-recce-of-benshaw-moss-with-northumberland-wildlife-trust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/helenadamson\/2021\/06\/15\/a-recce-of-benshaw-moss-with-northumberland-wildlife-trust\/","title":{"rendered":"A recce of Benshaw Moss with Northumberland Wildlife Trust"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"498\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/helenadamson\/files\/2021\/06\/20210526_141810-1024x498.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-542\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/helenadamson\/files\/2021\/06\/20210526_141810-1024x498.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/helenadamson\/files\/2021\/06\/20210526_141810-300x146.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/helenadamson\/files\/2021\/06\/20210526_141810-768x373.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/helenadamson\/files\/2021\/06\/20210526_141810-1536x746.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/helenadamson\/files\/2021\/06\/20210526_141810-2048x995.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/helenadamson\/files\/2021\/06\/20210526_141810-500x243.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>No reptiles under that one either <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Duncan and Alice took me round their recent acquisition: Benshaw Moss &#8211; what a site! I liked it immediatly as I could see dry heath, wet heath, bog, acid grassland &#8211; a great range of habitats with potential for improvemnt. But then they showed me the calcareous grassland, the calcareous flushes and the weird iron rich flush and I was bowled over<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So a great place for collaboration &#8211; for field trips and student projects and hopefully a bioblitz in the autumn<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"498\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/helenadamson\/files\/2021\/06\/20210526_154330-1024x498.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-544\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/helenadamson\/files\/2021\/06\/20210526_154330-1024x498.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/helenadamson\/files\/2021\/06\/20210526_154330-300x146.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/helenadamson\/files\/2021\/06\/20210526_154330-768x373.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/helenadamson\/files\/2021\/06\/20210526_154330-1536x746.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/helenadamson\/files\/2021\/06\/20210526_154330-2048x995.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/helenadamson\/files\/2021\/06\/20210526_154330-500x243.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>the weird iron rich flush<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"498\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/helenadamson\/files\/2021\/06\/20210526_161806-1024x498.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-545\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/helenadamson\/files\/2021\/06\/20210526_161806-1024x498.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/helenadamson\/files\/2021\/06\/20210526_161806-300x146.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/helenadamson\/files\/2021\/06\/20210526_161806-768x373.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/helenadamson\/files\/2021\/06\/20210526_161806-1536x746.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/helenadamson\/files\/2021\/06\/20210526_161806-2048x995.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/helenadamson\/files\/2021\/06\/20210526_161806-500x243.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>The waterfalls and calcareous grassland<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>So much potential &#8211; I&#8217;m looking forward to seeing what they will do with it and to working with them on student projects<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Duncan and Alice took me round their recent acquisition: Benshaw Moss &#8211; what a site! I liked it immediatly as I could see dry heath, wet heath, bog, acid grassland &#8211; a great range of habitats with potential for improvemnt. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/helenadamson\/2021\/06\/15\/a-recce-of-benshaw-moss-with-northumberland-wildlife-trust\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7536,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/helenadamson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/helenadamson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/helenadamson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/helenadamson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7536"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/helenadamson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/helenadamson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":546,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/helenadamson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions\/546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/helenadamson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/helenadamson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/helenadamson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}