{"id":56601,"date":"2018-03-14T10:36:31","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T14:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/?p=56601"},"modified":"2018-03-14T10:37:04","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T14:37:04","slug":"wildlife-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2018\/03\/wildlife\/wildlife-wednesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildlife Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: smaller; color: #808080;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/tag\/patricia-gonzalez\">Patricia Gonzalez<\/a> is an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybg.org\">NYBG<\/a> Visitor Services Attendant and avid wildlife photographer.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<hr width=\"350\">\n<p>On Wednesday, February 21st, it seemed as if mother nature forgot that summer doesn&#8217;t officially begin until June. The temperature peaked at 78\u00b0 F. Nearly 2,000 visitors decided to enjoy the glorious weather that day, and I was curious as to how the warmth would affect the Garden&#8217;s wildlife. I decided to try my luck and see if any animals we don&#8217;t normally see in winter might come out for a bit. I was not disappointed.<\/p>\n[Not a valid template]\n<p>In addition to the usual suspects (a pair of wood ducks and two pairs of mallards), I spotted a sizable red-eared slider having a look-see in the wetlands.<\/p>\n<p>What I wasn&#8217;t prepared for was the green frog in the Native Plant Garden. Yes, a green frog. In February.<\/p>\n<p>Wildlife Wednesday indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, February 21st, it seemed as if mother nature forgot that summer doesn&#8217;t officially begin until June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[34],"tags":[172,2713,1360,5493,4619,4631],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph0lU-eIV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56601"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56601"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56612,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56601\/revisions\/56612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}