{"id":37505,"date":"2024-09-04T19:22:54","date_gmt":"2024-09-04T23:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=37505"},"modified":"2024-09-04T19:22:54","modified_gmt":"2024-09-04T23:22:54","slug":"aha-a-new-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2024\/09\/aha-a-new-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Aha! A new one!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Man, I am getting backlogged with photos now, since my time to write things up keeps disappearing. Well, not true &#8211; I just keep using it for other things. I know, I know, after all that my readers have done for me&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, a few pics of a recent find at Walkabout Estates<strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/NewNewborn.jpg\" alt=\"newborn Carolina anole Anolis carolinensis snoozing on Japanese maple leaf\" width=\"750\" height=\"619\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-37506\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>This is <em>another<\/em> Carolina anole (<em>Anolis carolinensis<\/em>,) this time on the small Japanese maple in the front garden we call The Jungle. I&#8217;m confident that this is an entirely new one because it&#8217;s in an entirely different locale from the ones featured here previously, and because it&#8217;s even smaller. I have yet to see one hatch, or even the unhatched eggs, so I can never be sure how long after hatching I&#8217;ve been seeing them. But at least I can give a scale comparison for this one.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/NotherMicroLizard.jpg\" alt=\"newborn Carolina anole Anolis carolinensis on Japanese maple leaf with photographer&#039;s fingers for scale\" width=\"750\" height=\"672\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-37507\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>You can understand why I have the best luck seeing these guys at night when they&#8217;re sleeping on leaves, and not during the day when they&#8217;re foraging in the foliage. I can occasionally spot them peripherally when there&#8217;s a tiny movement where there shouldn&#8217;t be, generally the small flip of a leaf as they leap across to another, but if they stick to just slinking around in a typical lizard manner, they&#8217;re incredibly easy to miss.<\/p>\n<p>How about a close-up of our new arrival here?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/GettingSpooked.jpg\" alt=\"closeup of newborn Carolina anole Anolis carolinensis on Japanese maple leaf\" width=\"750\" height=\"894\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-37508\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>Very often at night, they&#8217;ll awaken as the headlamp looms close, yet do nothing more than open their eyes for a bit before closing them again and going back to sleep. This one, however, was starting to contemplate going to a safer location, especially given that I was pretty close with the reversed 28-105 lens, so I let it be following a few frames.<\/p>\n<p>A few nights later, after a day of heavy rains, I wasn&#8217;t really expecting to find it back out in the open on its favorite tree, but it presented quite a sight when rediscovered.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/SparklyBebbyAnole.jpg\" alt=\"newborn Carolina anole Anolis carolinensis on Japanese maple leaf, drenched with humidity\" width=\"750\" height=\"1133\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-37509\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s rain, since even just passing the mister over the adult anoles sends them scampering for cover &#8211; they don&#8217;t seem to like the rain. I think this is just the residual humidity gathering on its skin as its body temperature dropped overnight. But I was glad to get a catchlight in there, despite the fact that the flash was coming from the other side.<\/p>\n<p>As of last night, this one was still using the Japanese maple as its sleeping spot, though I expect that to change soon. We&#8217;ll see. Meanwhile, other pics will be coming along shortly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man, I am getting backlogged with photos now, since my time to write things up keeps disappearing. Well, not true &#8211; I just keep using it for other things. I know, I know, after all that my readers have done for me&#8230; Anyway, a few pics of a recent find at Walkabout Estates: This is [&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],"class_list":["post-37505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","tag-anolis-carolinensis","tag-carolina-anole","tag-japanese-maple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37505","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=37505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}