{"id":37624,"date":"2024-09-22T06:03:46","date_gmt":"2024-09-22T10:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=37624"},"modified":"2024-09-21T22:04:59","modified_gmt":"2024-09-22T02:04:59","slug":"plans-to-be-a-postal-carrier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2024\/09\/plans-to-be-a-postal-carrier\/","title":{"rendered":"Plans to be a postal carrier"},"content":{"rendered":"

Early the other morning I went past the Japanese maple that has been hosting the newborn Carolina anole (Anolis carolinensis<\/em>,) only it had been misty-raining overnight and I didn’t really expect to see the little lizard, since the species seems quite sensitive about rain – I’ve spooked them for cover on hot days when I just played the mist sprayer across them, and this is when they should have been most appreciative of it (the mantids certainly are.) But this guy, who’s been on the same small tree so regularly and far longer than I’ve ever seen an anole remain in one chosen sleeping spot, had to prove me wrong:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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It should be noted that the rain did not drop the temperature more than a couple of degrees and it was still quite comfortable out there, at least if you ignored the humidity. I didn’t really have the chance to do more than a couple of frames, and to be honest, you’re kind of lucky to be seeing this now – I’ll explain more in a few days. I still like this capture from a few years ago<\/a> better, but this one is certainly wetter – probably doubled its weight with all that water.<\/p>\n

Pretty soon, by the way, I expect to have a few new charges to be chasing photographically, so don’t go away – the game is afoot, as some drug addict was known to say, which may explain why it’s such a really odd phrase when you think about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Early the other morning I went past the Japanese maple that has been hosting the newborn Carolina anole (Anolis carolinensis,) only it had been misty-raining overnight and I didn’t really expect to see the little lizard, since the species seems quite sensitive about rain – I’ve spooked them for cover on hot days when I […]<\/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":[531,4081,2195,7830,2715],"class_list":["post-37624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","tag-anolis-carolinensis","tag-carolina-anole","tag-mist","tag-much-more-than-dew","tag-rain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37624","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=37624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}