{"id":660960,"date":"2026-06-27T10:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T10:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/660960\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T10:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T10:40:08","slug":"kirkharle-courtyard-parkrun-cancelled-due-to-migrating-frogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/660960\/","title":{"rendered":"Kirkharle Courtyard parkrun cancelled due to migrating frogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A parkrun has been cancelled for a second week in a row due to frogs migrating across the course.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kirkharle Courtyard parkrun, in Northumberland, started last October and event co-director Nick Winslow said they knew the frogs might be an issue in the summer as they migrate every year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Normally what happens is the frogs arrive they cross the path they clear off and it&#8217;s all over in like maybe a week,&#8221; Winslow said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, he said this year the heat was making the whole process take longer as the frogs had slowed down. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This would have been our 28th event so one of the issues for us is every week we&#8217;re still kind of learning,&#8221; Winslow said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He also said the run had built &#8220;a lot of character&#8221; with all the briefings read as poems and alpacas from the local campsite coming to greet the runners at the end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A parkrun has been cancelled for a second week in a row due to frogs migrating across the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":660961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-660960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/660961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}