{"id":58247,"date":"2019-04-23T14:36:56","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T18:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/?p=58247"},"modified":"2019-04-23T14:37:11","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T18:37:11","slug":"wildlife-at-the-garden-turtle-turnout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2019\/04\/wildlife\/wildlife-at-the-garden-turtle-turnout\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildlife at the Garden: Turtle Turnout"},"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=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\">NYBG<\/a> Visitor Services Attendant and avid wildlife photographer.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<hr width=\"350\">\n<p>On Sunday, April 7, the Garden enjoyed sunny skies and 65-degree temperatures. The crowds of visitors weren&#8217;t the only ones out on that glorious day. During my lunch break, I headed out in the hopes that our reptile friends would make an appearance\u2014and they did not disappoint. There were literally piles of red-eared sliders and painted turtles getting their tan on. I&#8217;m not sure how many, as I stopped counting after 40. And they say it&#8217;s not easy being green!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2019\/04\/wildlife\/wildlife-at-the-garden-turtle-turnout\/attachment\/dsc06782b\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-58248\"><img data-attachment-id=\"58248\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2019\/04\/wildlife\/wildlife-at-the-garden-turtle-turnout\/attachment\/dsc06782b\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/DSC06782b.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2500,1357\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;6.4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;DSC-HX90V&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1554633909&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;123&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;160&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.004&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"turtles\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/DSC06782b-320x174.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/DSC06782b-800x434.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-58248\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/DSC06782b-800x434.jpg\" alt=\"photo of turtles\" width=\"800\" height=\"434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/DSC06782b-800x434.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/DSC06782b-160x87.jpg 160w, https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/DSC06782b-320x174.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/DSC06782b-768x417.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/DSC06782b-1920x1042.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/DSC06782b-1600x868.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/DSC06782b-1280x695.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/DSC06782b-960x521.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/DSC06782b-640x347.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/DSC06782b-480x261.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/DSC06782b-240x130.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/DSC06782b.jpg 2500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nPhoto by Patricia Gonzalez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, April 7, the Garden enjoyed sunny skies and 65-degree temperatures. The crowds of visitors weren&#8217;t the only ones out on that glorious day. During my lunch break, I headed out in the hopes that our reptile friends would make an appearance\u2014and they did not disappoint.<\/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":[1360,192,1508],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph0lU-f9t","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58247"}],"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=58247"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58250,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58247\/revisions\/58250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}