{"id":27087,"date":"2020-09-17T23:47:09","date_gmt":"2020-09-18T03:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=27087"},"modified":"2020-09-17T23:47:09","modified_gmt":"2020-09-18T03:47:09","slug":"we-need-another","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2020\/09\/we-need-another\/","title":{"rendered":"We need another"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What the hell, I already posted twice today, and cleaned out the &#8216;To be sorted&#8217; folder (long overdue) &#8211; then I take out the compost and spot another couple of images to put back <em>into<\/em> it. So what&#8217;s one more post in a day, between us?<\/p>\n<p>The green treefrog (<em>Hyla cinerea<\/em>) that I spotted <a href=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2020\/08\/frog-monday\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">hanging out in the ant trap<\/a> on one of our hummingbird feeders seems to have made this a regular haunt, and while it would normally be out hunting at this time of night (it&#8217;s 11:34 PM,) it&#8217;s been raining all day long, courtesy of a hurricane I think, and for some reason treefrogs don&#8217;t like being out in the rain. So here it sits, waiting.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/WaitingTheRain1.jpg\" alt=\"green treefrog Hyla cinerea waiting for the rain to cease\" width=\"750\" height=\"891\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27088\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>By day, it&#8217;s normally hunkered down in there, barely visible through the filthy plastic, and I&#8217;ve noted its presence several days in a row now. But the Copes grey treefrogs (<em>Hyla chrysoscelis<\/em>) have been a lot more scarce, and I haven&#8217;t seen a full adult for a while now. Until tonight.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/WaitingTheRain2.jpg\" alt=\"Copes grey treefrog Hyla chrysoscelis also waiting for the rain to cease\" width=\"750\" height=\"632\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27089\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>Two meters away on a downspout under the same roof overhang, a Copes grey also sits under cover away from the steady downpour, somehow not looking all that patient. To me, anyway &#8211; you know us experienced nature photographers can read the animals like a book.<\/p>\n<p>[<em>Sigh<\/em>] And now I have to go sort <em>another<\/em> six images. Work work work&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What the hell, I already posted twice today, and cleaned out the &#8216;To be sorted&#8217; folder (long overdue) &#8211; then I take out the compost and spot another couple of images to put back into it. So what&#8217;s one more post in a day, between us? The green treefrog (Hyla cinerea) that I spotted hanging [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[2439,2505,194,2506,5675],"class_list":["post-27087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","tag-copes-grey-treefrog","tag-green-treefrog","tag-hyla-chrysoscelis","tag-hyla-cinerea","tag-whats-wrong-with-a-little-rain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}