{"id":34175,"date":"2023-04-12T15:02:22","date_gmt":"2023-04-12T19:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=34175"},"modified":"2023-04-12T15:02:22","modified_gmt":"2023-04-12T19:02:22","slug":"and-the-winner-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2023\/04\/and-the-winner-is\/","title":{"rendered":"And the winner is&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/StubbyOnPatrol.jpg\" alt=\"Carolina anole Anolis carolinensis 'Stubby' patrolling territory\" width=\"750\" height=\"915\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34176\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>&#8230; Stubby, with 6 to 4 odds.<\/p>\n<p>Out today doing some yard work, and spotted this Carolina anole (<em>Anolis carolinensis<\/em>) skipping along between fence posts, definitely much spookier than <a href=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2023\/04\/lizard-licks\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the last time I saw him<\/a>, but I&#8217;m putting this down to not being preoccupied with staking a claim to this territory and thus having a natural level of discretion. Nonetheless, I stalked him until he both returned to the exact same post that many of the disputes occurred on, as well as displaying his telltail &#8211; finally, I have a way to tell at least <em>one<\/em> of the anoles apart.<\/p>\n<p>I also got a few better frames, too.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/StubbyScars.jpg\" alt=\"Carolina anole Anolis carolinensis &#039;Stubby&#039; displaying scars from territorial fights a week ago\" width=\"750\" height=\"1036\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34177\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>Remember when I said that I wasn&#8217;t seeing much in the way of injuries? They&#8217;re a bit more apparent here, but I also suspect most of these will vanish with the next molt. I&#8217;ll keep an eye out for the other guy so we can compare.<\/p>\n<p>This particular image might be portraying his annoyance with me, not just from my proximity, but the fact that I had the back gate open, not a meter away, and thus his normal path across the backyard had a huge (to him) gap in it. He&#8217;d have to go <em>all the way down<\/em> to the ground and scamper across open territory before climbing <em>back up again<\/em> on the other side to resume his patrols, all because I wanted to dump some pond debris outside the fence. I have no doubts he was eyeing my arms and thinking I was lazy for not just leaving the gate closed and hurling the stuff over it.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll have more pics later on, perhaps even of a new photo goal, but for now, one more anole, because.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/JapaneseAnole.jpg\" alt=\"Carolina anole Anolis carolinensis perched in potted Japanese maple\" width=\"752\" height=\"957\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34178\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>Many meters away on the deck, another anole, a female I suspect, jumped onto the potted Japanese maple there and paused among the leaves in a photogenic way, so I took a moment to be fartsy. This will likely be a print soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; Stubby, with 6 to 4 odds. Out today doing some yard work, and spotted this Carolina anole (Anolis carolinensis) skipping along between fence posts, definitely much spookier than the last time I saw him, but I&#8217;m putting this down to not being preoccupied with staking a claim to this territory and thus having a [&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":[531,4081,5524,7184,7183],"class_list":["post-34175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","tag-anolis-carolinensis","tag-carolina-anole","tag-japanese-maple","tag-my-fence","tag-stubby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34175","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=34175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}