{"id":40470,"date":"2025-11-22T17:05:26","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T22:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=40470"},"modified":"2025-11-22T17:05:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T22:05:26","slug":"a-few-quick-portraits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2025\/11\/a-few-quick-portraits\/","title":{"rendered":"A few quick portraits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a handful of wildlife portraits obtained within the past few days &#8211; they mostly speak for themselves.<\/p>\n<p>How long has it been since we&#8217;ve had an arthropod? Too long?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/StarryKaty.jpg\" alt=\"unidentified katydid Tettigoniidae covered in mist at night\" width=\"750\" height=\"638\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-40471\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>I <em>said<\/em> it was misty last night, and you didn&#8217;t believe me. This katydid did, however.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/BlameCanada.jpg\" alt=\"closeup of Canada goose Branta canadensis in pond with duckweed on bill\" width=\"750\" height=\"663\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-40472\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>This Canada goose was waiting for me to finish distributing corn so it could take a break from chowing on pond weeds. Now if we could only get the wood ducks this close&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/GreenRight.jpg\" alt=\"green treefrog Dryophytes cinereus displaying pale coloration with speckling\" width=\"750\" height=\"673\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-40473\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>This one has me quite curious, because while I&#8217;ve seen a lot of base color variation among the green treefrogs, I&#8217;ve never seen one with a speckled pattern. I&#8217;d guessed that it might have been in a transitional stage between shades, but this persisted into daylight, and had it not been for the prominent white stripe along the sides, I might have even believed this was another species. Checking just now, it seems that on occasion, green treefrogs can hybridize with another species, the <a href=\"https:\/\/herpsofnc.org\/barking-treefrog\/\" target=\"_blank\">barking treefrog<\/a>, which has distinct spots across its back in much the same distribution as these speckles, but larger. Those can be found in this area, though I&#8217;ve never seen nor heard one. Hmmm&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But the coolest portrait belongs to this little gal<strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/BentDoublePortrait.jpg\" alt=\"Carolina anole Anolis carolinensis with bent tail tip, perched on post alongside own reflection in lamp glass\" width=\"750\" height=\"1239\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-40474\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>After not having seen it for months, suddenly the <a href=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2025\/06\/estate-find-xxv\/\" target=\"_blank\">anole with the bent tail tip<\/a> showed up again in the exact same place, right on the lightpost alongside the front walk. And I realized with the first pic that her reflection could barely be seen in the glass from the lamp, and so re-positioned slightly to get this a lot more distinctly. Going the extra mile, that&#8217;s me&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a handful of wildlife portraits obtained within the past few days &#8211; they mostly speak for themselves. How long has it been since we&#8217;ve had an arthropod? Too long? I said it was misty last night, and you didn&#8217;t believe me. This katydid did, however. This Canada goose was waiting for me to finish [&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":[531,2796,2795,4081,6854,2505,8388,2565,2195,3155,8387],"class_list":["post-40470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","tag-anolis-carolinensis","tag-branta-canadensis","tag-canada-goose","tag-carolina-anole","tag-dryophytes-cinereus","tag-green-treefrog","tag-hybrid","tag-katydid","tag-mist","tag-portraiture","tag-tettigoniidae"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40470","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=40470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}