{"id":8640,"date":"2024-06-11T14:08:06","date_gmt":"2024-06-11T14:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8640"},"modified":"2024-06-11T14:08:06","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T14:08:06","slug":"whitfield-valley-nature-reserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8640","title":{"rendered":"Whitfield Valley Nature Reserve"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This is a lovely nature reserve in the middle of urban Stoke-on-Trent. We made our first visit there last month and were pleasantly surprised at the extent of the reserve and the proximity to housing – in fact there were several entrances from the surrounding housing estates. Below is a selection of the photos that I took on the day:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This first image I use to set the scene; a panoramic view of the countryside but with the adjacent housing showing:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A panoramic countryside view of Whitfield Valley Nature Reserve showing some of the adjacent housing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A view of the small lake at the southern end of the reserve with wild flowers in the foreground<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A panoramic view of the lake with a swan sleeping by one of the park benches<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Moorhen chicks on their nest in the lake<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A second panoramic view of the lake with wild flowers and shrubs in the foreground<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This reserve was a pleasant surprise – we intend to make further visits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is a lovely nature reserve in the middle of urban Stoke-on-Trent. We made our first visit there last month and were pleasantly surprised at the extent of the reserve and the proximity to housing – in fact there were several entrances from the surrounding housing estates. Below is a selection of the photos that … Continue reading “Whitfield Valley Nature Reserve”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,11,24,3,94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-landscape","category-nature","category-photography","category-staffordshire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8640"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8647,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8640\/revisions\/8647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}