{"id":36133,"date":"2024-01-15T00:27:46","date_gmt":"2024-01-15T05:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=36133"},"modified":"2024-01-15T00:27:46","modified_gmt":"2024-01-15T05:27:46","slug":"what-are-you-doing-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2024\/01\/what-are-you-doing-out\/","title":{"rendered":"What are you doing out?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Was out in the yard yesterday, trying to oxidize some old deck boards, and as things were smoldering I wandered around a little bit. On the wall right near the access door that has served as an anole hideyhole, I found this guy enjoying the sunlight.<\/p>\n

\"Carolina
Now, the temperature when I spotted this Carolina anole (Anolis carolinensis<\/em>) was roughly 12°c, but that was the absolute peak for the past several days and it’s been way colder than that at night, so I really expected them to be remaining in shelter. However, that’s the edge of the dryer vent right alongside, so it seems likely that this one has found a pleasantly warm spot to spend the winter. I would have attempted to relocate a couple into the greenhouse, since it has a heater that maintains at least 10° and it got up over 20° in there today, but I’m not sure what this does to their metabolism, to say nothing of finding anything to eat in there, so I leave them to handle it on their own. But I think it’s safe to say this is the earliest appearance of the species that I’ve logged.<\/p>\n

I should probably try the anoles out with mealworms, see if they like those as a food source, because I know I can keep those in the fridge for a while and thus would be able to provide snacks in circumstances like this. Seems like a fair trade for all the photos I’ve gotten of them over the years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Was out in the yard yesterday, trying to oxidize some old deck boards, and as things were smoldering I wandered around a little bit. On the wall right near the access door that has served as an anole hideyhole, I found this guy enjoying the sunlight. Now, the temperature when I spotted this Carolina anole […]<\/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],"class_list":["post-36133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","tag-anolis-carolinensis","tag-carolina-anole"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36133","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=36133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}