{"id":29384,"date":"2021-07-06T21:42:55","date_gmt":"2021-07-07T01:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=29384"},"modified":"2021-07-06T21:42:55","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T01:42:55","slug":"so-current","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2021\/07\/so-current\/","title":{"rendered":"So current"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Still plenty of photos to feature, but the posts I have planned are not quickies, and today was a bit busy. However, early this evening a neighbor came by and told us about the scene in his own backyard, so I grabbed the camera bag and trotted (ambled) over there. I&#8217;m getting a reputation &#8211; good or bad, I dunno, so we&#8217;ll just leave it at &#8216;reputation.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/NeighborlyBlack.jpg\" alt=\"eastern black rat snake Pantherophis alleghaniensis peering from bird&#039;s hollow in dead pine\" width=\"750\" height=\"1243\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29385\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>This is a medium sized eastern rat snake, or black rat snake if you prefer &#8211; either way it&#8217;s <em>Pantherophis alleghaniensis<\/em>. It had climbed the straight trunk to find this excavation created by birds, which likely had young in it, initially at least, though I would have thought it was a little late in the season for a nest. There are not a lot of reasons otherwise for a rat snake to be scaling a tree, so&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Definitely a curious pose, and very clearly aware of our presence, but it had also been there for more than a few minutes and is likely spending the night to facilitate digestion. It had better tuck in before the owls get active, though&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Still plenty of photos to feature, but the posts I have planned are not quickies, and today was a bit busy. However, early this evening a neighbor came by and told us about the scene in his own backyard, so I grabbed the camera bag and trotted (ambled) over there. I&#8217;m getting a reputation &#8211; [&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":[288,5596,5595],"class_list":["post-29384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","tag-black-rat-snake","tag-eastern-rat-snake","tag-pantherophis-alleghaniensis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29384","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=29384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}