{"id":22114,"date":"2026-04-30T23:02:55","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T22:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?p=22114"},"modified":"2026-04-30T23:03:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T22:03:43","slug":"victoria-park-butterflies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/victoria-park-butterflies\/","title":{"rendered":"Victoria Park Butterflies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" data-attachment-id=\"22115\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/victoria-park-butterflies\/speckled-wood-5\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Speckled-Wood.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"1200,1200\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1777564216&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Speckled Wood&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Speckled Wood\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Speckled-Wood-1024x1024.jpeg\" data-id=\"22115\" src=\"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Speckled-Wood-1024x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"Speckled Wood butterfly resting on a green leaf, wings closed.\" class=\"wp-image-22115\" srcset=\"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Speckled-Wood-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Speckled-Wood-620x620.jpeg 620w, https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Speckled-Wood-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Speckled-Wood-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Speckled-Wood-668x668.jpeg 668w, https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Speckled-Wood-50x50.jpeg 50w, https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Speckled-Wood.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" data-attachment-id=\"22116\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/victoria-park-butterflies\/red-admiral-6\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Red-Admiral.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"1200,1200\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1777564195&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Red Admiral&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Red Admiral\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Red-Admiral-1024x1024.jpeg\" data-id=\"22116\" src=\"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Red-Admiral-1024x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"Red Admiral resting on a branch.\" class=\"wp-image-22116\" srcset=\"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Red-Admiral-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Red-Admiral-620x620.jpeg 620w, https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Red-Admiral-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Red-Admiral-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Red-Admiral-668x668.jpeg 668w, https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Red-Admiral-50x50.jpeg 50w, https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Red-Admiral.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Victoria Park this afternoon sunny and very warm. In a sheltered spot near fossil grove we watched 2 Speckled Woods spiral, jousting up and around for quite a while. A Red Admiral and a coupe of orange tip butterflies around too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victoria Park this afternoon sunny and very warm. In a sheltered spot near fossil grove we watched 2 Speckled Woods spiral, jousting up and around for quite a while. A Red Admiral and a coupe of orange tip butterflies around too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"status","meta":{"mf2_syndication":["https:\/\/social.ds106.us\/@johnjohnston\/116495914576053744","https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/johnjohnston.info\/post\/3mkqmkrq77f2u"],"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[953],"tags":[821,671,849],"post_format":[642],"class_list":{"0":"post-22114","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-status","6":"category-posse","7":"tag-butterfly","8":"tag-fauna","9":"tag-victoria-park","10":"post_format-post-format-status","11":"kind-article","13":"h-entry","14":"hentry"},"better_featured_image":null,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p57zFQ-5KG","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22114"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22118,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22114\/revisions\/22118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22114"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_format?post=22114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}