{"id":39138,"date":"2025-06-15T00:07:27","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T04:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=39138"},"modified":"2025-06-15T01:23:27","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T05:23:27","slug":"sidetracking-literally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2025\/06\/sidetracking-literally\/","title":{"rendered":"Sidetracking (literally)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just throwing this down for giggles. As I was sitting down to do a few of the <em>in situ<\/em> shots of the last Estate Find, I heard a rustling in the taller grasses\/weeds very close behind me. It wasn&#8217;t a deer as expected, and wasn&#8217;t showing above the grasses at all, but was easy enough to find. So while I was there, I shot a quick video clip.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding:56.25% 0 0 0;position:relative;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1093426484?badge=0&amp;autopause=0&amp;player_id=0&amp;app_id=58479\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" title=\"Slider heading home\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/api\/player.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s all &#8211; nothing elaborate, just taking the opportunity with an incidental find. I haven&#8217;t a decent idea where her nest might be, except &#8220;north-ish&#8221; and off of our property, so I&#8217;m not going looking for it. If the newborns take a direct route back to the pond when hatched, I shouldn&#8217;t have to worry about them when mowing, at least&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just throwing this down for giggles. As I was sitting down to do a few of the in situ shots of the last Estate Find, I heard a rustling in the taller grasses\/weeds very close behind me. It wasn&#8217;t a deer as expected, and wasn&#8217;t showing above the grasses at all, but was easy enough [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3809],"tags":[6753,8161,2828,169],"class_list":["post-39138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-video","tag-female","tag-returning","tag-trachemys-scripta-scripta","tag-yellow-bellied-slider"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39138","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=39138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}