{"id":42297,"date":"2026-08-01T00:11:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T04:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=42297"},"modified":"2026-08-01T00:11:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T04:11:09","slug":"yay-first-oak-leaf-anole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2026\/08\/yay-first-oak-leaf-anole\/","title":{"rendered":"Yay! First oak-leaf anole!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’m not quite going to make this in July, but so be it. Late at night on the 31st<\/sup>, I found the first newborn Carolina anole (Anolis carolinensis<\/em>) on the oak-leaf hydrangeas (Hydrangea quercifolia<\/em>.) <\/p>\n

Here’s the deal:<\/strong> At old Walkabout Estates, we’d planted a few oak-leaf hydrangeas<\/a>, which became well-established and were a huge favorite of the anoles, and I have hundreds of photos of the two. We attempted to transplant some cuttings when we moved here, but they never took, and this spring we finally purchased a couple from a nursery and got them started in the yard. They’ve been getting established, and just now, I found the first anole snoozing on a leaf of one.<\/p>\n

Last year, there were countless (meaning counted<\/a>) anoles sleeping on various plants around the yard in late summer, chief among them a couple of Japanese maples right outside the door to Walkabout Studios. For some reason, this isn’t even remotely happening this year, and I have yet to find one on any maple, or indeed most of the plants in the backyard – I don’t get the impression we’re gonna set a new record this year, but it might still be too early.<\/p>\n

Still, it’s a good sign, and I’m pleased – you know where to send congratulatory cards and checks…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m not quite going to make this in July, but so be it. Late at night on the 31st, I found the first newborn Carolina anole (Anolis carolinensis) on the oak-leaf hydrangeas (Hydrangea quercifolia.) Here’s the deal: At old Walkabout Estates, we’d planted a few oak-leaf hydrangeas, which became well-established and were a huge favorite […]<\/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":[531,4081,8819,2671,3808,2670],"class_list":["post-42297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","tag-anolis-carolinensis","tag-carolina-anole","tag-easy-to-please","tag-hydrangea-quercifolia","tag-newborn","tag-oak-leaf-hydrangea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42297","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=42297"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42300,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42297\/revisions\/42300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}