{"id":6328,"date":"2012-08-15T09:47:51","date_gmt":"2012-08-15T09:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=6328"},"modified":"2012-08-15T09:48:55","modified_gmt":"2012-08-15T09:48:55","slug":"bat-walk-at-ampthill-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=6328","title":{"rendered":"Bat walk at Ampthill Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Dexter-cow.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6329\" title=\"Dexter cow\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Dexter-cow.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"195\" \/><\/a>Ampthill Town Council has recently introduced Dexter cattle\u00a0 to graze on the wet flush at the bottom of Ampthill Park with the\u00a0 laudable aim of increasing biodiverity. Last night&#8217;s Bat walk there suggests there is already a new species in the park,. The rare and elusive serotine. Bat group members will be checking this out further before the new walk.<\/p>\n<p>(Serotines are associated with grazing animals such as cows and horses as they are particuarly partial to dung beetles.)<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dung-beetles.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6330 alignright\" title=\"dung beetles\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dung-beetles.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"264\" height=\"191\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ampthill Town Council has recently introduced Dexter cattle\u00a0 to graze on the wet flush at the bottom of Ampthill Park with the\u00a0 laudable aim of increasing biodiverity. Last night&#8217;s Bat walk there suggests there is already a new species in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=6328\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[112,131,41],"class_list":["post-6328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ampthill-park","tag-serotine","tag-walk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6328"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6332,"href":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6328\/revisions\/6332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}