{"id":2470,"date":"2020-09-10T14:02:35","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T14:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/businessdirectory\/?post_type=wpbdp_listing&#038;p=2470"},"modified":"2021-09-09T12:44:44","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T12:44:44","slug":"thacka-beck-nature-reserve","status":"publish","type":"wpbdp_listing","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/businessdirectory\/business-directory-2\/thacka-beck-nature-reserve\/","title":{"rendered":"Thacka Beck Nature Reserve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Managed by Cumbria Wildlife Trust<\/p>\n<p>Thacka Beck Nature Reserve has Hay meadows, wet grassland, scrub, hedges, ponds and the beck provide homes for a wealth of wildlife. Although small in size, the nature reserve has a remarkable number of birds.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s an easy circuit around the reserve on level ground (850m\/0.5miles). We request that visitors do not access fenced off areas to minimise disturbance to wildlife and livestock, and dogs are not permitted in the fenced areas.<\/p>\n<p>There is a surfaced path suitable for wheelchairs and pushchairs around the reserve on level ground. Wheelchair-friendly kissing gates give access from Thacka Lane, Cowper Road and Bowerbank Way.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"field__label\">About the Thacka Beck Nature Reserve<\/h2>\n<h3>Wildlife highlights<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><em>In spring<\/em> -blackthorn and other blossoms, returning migrant birds and marsh marigolds.<\/li>\n<li><em>In summe<\/em>r &#8211; butterflies in the hay meadows and swallows, house martins and swifts catch insects over the ponds.\u00a0Enjoy the splashes of summer colour in the hay meadows.<\/li>\n<li><em>In autumn &#8211;<\/em> flocks of fieldfare and redwing feed in the hedgerows whilst the thistles and knapweed attract flocks of goldfinches.<\/li>\n<li><em>In Winter<\/em>\u00a0&#8211; residents include mallards and moorhen.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/businessdirectory\/things-to-do-in-penrith\/cumbria\/penrith\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Find More Things to do in Penrith<\/a><\/p>\n<p>feature image credit Photo \u00a9\u00a0<a title=\"View profile\" href=\"https:\/\/www.geograph.org.uk\/profile\/27852\">G Laird<\/a>\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/2.0\/\">cc-by-sa\/2.0<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Managed by Cumbria Wildlife Trust Thacka Beck Nature Reserve has Hay meadows, wet grassland, scrub, hedges, ponds and the beck provide homes for a wealth of wildlife. Although small in size, the nature reserve has a remarkable number of birds. There\u2019s an easy circuit around the reserve on level ground (850m\/0.5miles). We request that visitors&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":87,"featured_media":5470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0},"wpbdp_category":[2584],"wpbdp_tag":[2444,3029,2586,2585],"class_list":["post-2470","wpbdp_listing","type-wpbdp_listing","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","wpbdp_category-walking-and-scenic-locations","wpbdp_tag-things-to-do-in-cumbria","wpbdp_tag-walking-and-scenic-locations-in-cumbria","wpbdp_tag-walks-in-cumbria","wpbdp_tag-walks-in-penrith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/businessdirectory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wpbdp_listing\/2470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/businessdirectory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wpbdp_listing"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/businessdirectory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wpbdp_listing"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/businessdirectory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/87"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/businessdirectory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2470"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/businessdirectory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/businessdirectory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wpbdp_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/businessdirectory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wpbdp_category?post=2470"},{"taxonomy":"wpbdp_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/businessdirectory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wpbdp_tag?post=2470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}