{"id":32578,"date":"2022-08-20T19:51:01","date_gmt":"2022-08-20T23:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=32578"},"modified":"2022-08-20T19:51:01","modified_gmt":"2022-08-20T23:51:01","slug":"just-because-part-49","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2022\/08\/just-because-part-49\/","title":{"rendered":"Just because, part 49"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was down at the lake the other day doing some tests, which you’ll hear more about eventually, and noticed that there appeared to have been a mass emigration from the waters recently. Along the lake edges, the sand would suddenly hop away at my approach – not all of it, mind you, just certain select and very small portions. I had the long lens affixed and was reluctant to change it out due to potentially imminent sightings of something that actually required the focal length, so at a given opportunity I used it anyway to aim down at these curiously mobile patches of sand.<\/p>\n

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Unless I miss my guess, this is an American toad, only wait! There have been more taxonomical shenanigans, and it’s now more accurate to say this is an eastern<\/em> American toad (Anaxyrus americanus americanus<\/em>) – there are now three recognized subspecies, and naturally, one of them had to be an eastern<\/a> one, because someone’s mad about that airline going defunct.<\/p>\n

Some idea of the scale can be discerned through the size of the grains of sand – I wouldn’t say these guys were more than a few days past tadpole stage, and really, there were a lot<\/em> of them. But I only did a handful of frames and have nothing else to tie it in with, postwise, so it’ll be here all alone – sand-colored toad against a sand background against a sand blog background. Hopefully you’re reading this over a sandwich…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was down at the lake the other day doing some tests, which you’ll hear more about eventually, and noticed that there appeared to have been a mass emigration from the waters recently. Along the lake edges, the sand would suddenly hop away at my approach – not all of it, mind you, just certain […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3,12],"tags":[6877,6878],"class_list":["post-32578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","category-random","tag-anaxyrus-americanus-americanus","tag-eastern-american-toad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32578","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=32578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}