{"id":107,"date":"2020-05-05T17:32:23","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T17:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blue-burgundy.co.uk\/?page_id=107"},"modified":"2020-05-27T09:48:44","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T09:48:44","slug":"time-and-a-place-for-nature","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.blue-burgundy.co.uk\/?page_id=107","title":{"rendered":"Time and a Place for Nature"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After essentially thirty years of the rat race of an employed working life, the realisation of something new being afoot suddenly hit me in Chicksands Wood on a beautiful June morning a couple of weeks before my early retirement departure from GSK<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My mind was buzzing and I was enthralled to have taken some excellent pictures of some elusive White Letter Hairstreak butterflies &#8211; walking back through the wood with summer birdsong ringing in my ears I realised that very soon I would have more time to seek out the many places that are now established to give nature the room in needs to thrive\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"829\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blue-burgundy.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/WLH-829x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-109\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blue-burgundy.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/WLH-829x1024.jpg 829w, https:\/\/www.blue-burgundy.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/WLH-243x300.jpg 243w, https:\/\/www.blue-burgundy.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/WLH-768x948.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.blue-burgundy.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/WLH-1244x1536.jpg 1244w, https:\/\/www.blue-burgundy.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/WLH-1659x2048.jpg 1659w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 829px) 100vw, 829px\" \/><figcaption>White Letter Hairstreak, Chicksands Wood, June 2019<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blue-burgundy.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/2011-10-25_1-002-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-108\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blue-burgundy.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/2011-10-25_1-002-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.blue-burgundy.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/2011-10-25_1-002-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.blue-burgundy.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/2011-10-25_1-002-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.blue-burgundy.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/2011-10-25_1-002-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.blue-burgundy.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/2011-10-25_1-002-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Where some of my love for nature was nurtured &#8211; a flock of waders, likely Knot or Dunlin wheeling away over the Parrett estuary as seen from Steart point (with Burnham on Sea behind), captured on a \u00a330 Photax 500mm on my second-hand OM-1 with a mount secured by electrical tape!   A great inspiration behind this and my Science was the late, great, Pete Brown who so loved this picture, taken in about 1979 on a Chew Valley School trip.  The small hide remains &#8211; but now in disrepair &#8211; alongside the new magnificence of<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wwt.org.uk\/wetland-centres\/steart-marshes\"> WWT Steart Marshes<\/a>.  How Pete would have loved these changes &#8211; not to mention the many more places for wildlife now preserved in Somerset.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Journey will continue&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button alignleft is-style-fill\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-background\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blue-burgundy.co.uk\/\" style=\"background-color:#0071a1\">Return to Homepage<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After essentially thirty years of the rat race of an employed working life, the realisation of something new being afoot suddenly hit me in Chicksands Wood on a beautiful June morning a couple of weeks before my early retirement departure from GSK My mind was buzzing and I was enthralled to have taken some excellent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blue-burgundy.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/107"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blue-burgundy.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blue-burgundy.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blue-burgundy.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blue-burgundy.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.blue-burgundy.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301,"href":"https:\/\/www.blue-burgundy.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/107\/revisions\/301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blue-burgundy.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}