{"id":18904,"date":"2023-06-19T20:58:51","date_gmt":"2023-06-19T19:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=18904"},"modified":"2023-07-01T11:11:10","modified_gmt":"2023-07-01T10:11:10","slug":"critter-of-the-day-common-blue-damselfly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=18904","title":{"rendered":"Critter of the Day: Common Blue Damselfly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18905\" src=\"http:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/damselflyD7DL5057.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/damselflyD7DL5057.jpg 600w, https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/damselflyD7DL5057-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/>Admin2, who is currently reading <em>Fireside Gothic<\/em>, three spooky novellas by Andrew Taylor while Admin1 is reading <em>The Brutal Tide<\/em> by Kate Rhodes, was trying to photograph a small skipper butterfly but caught this unexpected <a href=\"https:\/\/british-dragonflies.org.uk\/species\/common-blue-damselfly\/\">Enallagma cyathigerum<\/a> instead. Its wings are so diaphanous that they didn&#8217;t show up on any of our photos but you can sort of see them in its shadow.<br \/>\nToday&#8217;s weather featured a substantial thundershower but not much rain was recorded, probably because the pigeons have been crapping in the rain gauge again. [Update, 30 June: And indeed they had &#8212; now cleaned.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Admin2, who is currently reading Fireside Gothic, three spooky novellas by Andrew Taylor while Admin1 is reading The Brutal Tide by Kate Rhodes, was trying to photograph a small skipper butterfly but caught this unexpected Enallagma cyathigerum instead. Its wings are so diaphanous that they didn&#8217;t show up on any of our photos but you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=18904\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Critter of the Day: Common Blue Damselfly&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[19,20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18904"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18904"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18949,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18904\/revisions\/18949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}