{"id":750093,"date":"2026-08-26T07:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T07:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/750093\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T07:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T07:48:09","slug":"how-drought-is-changing-natures-calendar-in-the-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/750093\/","title":{"rendered":"How drought is changing nature&#8217;s calendar in the West"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England, who has lived near Stoke Park in Bristol all his life, has also noticed fruit ripening much earlier than normal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He remembers picking blackberries as a child at the end of the school holidays in August and September, but this year he was out picking in June. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, some berries are also suffering in the drought. England said rowan berries should be double their current size by now, but many have shrivelled in the dry conditions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He fears that could have consequences for migratory birds such as fieldfares and redwings, which rely on autumn berries as a food source when they arrive in the UK for winter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">If they&#8217;re &#8220;ripening too quick&#8221; and disappearing before the birds arrive it could be a &#8220;big problem&#8221;, he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has also noticed trees dropping their leaves much earlier than usual due to the dry weather. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They are going into survival mode,&#8221; he added. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England, who has lived near Stoke Park in Bristol all his life, has also noticed fruit ripening much&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":750094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-750093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750093","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=750093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/750094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}