{"id":1159,"date":"2014-04-17T14:26:56","date_gmt":"2014-04-17T18:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hnpnc.com\/site\/?p=1159"},"modified":"2014-04-17T14:26:56","modified_gmt":"2014-04-17T18:26:56","slug":"tis-the-season-for-salamanders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hnpnc.com\/site\/tis-the-season-for-salamanders","title":{"rendered":"Tis&#8217; the season for Salamanders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In spite of fluctuating temperatures, salamanders are on the move! Club members had to watch their step when they visited a vernal pond at Silver Creek Conservation Area last weekend. Salamanders were active and thick on the ground, ignoring low temperatures to conduct their annual nocturnal &#8220;spring thing&#8221;. Jefferson Salamanders (a threatened species) and Spotted Salamanders were numerous on the forest floor, and a single red-backed salamander was observed out for a nocturnal stroll; a bizarre leucistic (partially pigmented) spotted salamander was also sighted.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tiled-gallery type-rectangular tiled-gallery-unresized\" data-original-width=\"474\" data-carousel-extra='null' itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageGallery\" > <div class=\"gallery-row\" style=\"width: 474px; height: 221px;\" data-original-width=\"474\" data-original-height=\"221\" > <div class=\"gallery-group images-1\" style=\"width: 314px; height: 221px;\" data-original-width=\"314\" data-original-height=\"221\" > <div class=\"tiled-gallery-item tiled-gallery-item-large\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hnpnc.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_2398.jpg?ssl=1\" border=\"0\" itemprop=\"url\"> <meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"310\"> <meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"217\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"1162\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/hnpnc.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_2398.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2000,1403\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;11&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS REBEL T4i&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1397339446&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.005&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_2398\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/hnpnc.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_2398-300x210.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/hnpnc.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_2398.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hnpnc.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_2398.jpg?w=310&#038;h=217&#038;ssl=1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hnpnc.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_2398.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/hnpnc.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_2398-300x210.jpg 300w\" width=\"310\" height=\"217\" loading=\"lazy\" data-original-width=\"310\" data-original-height=\"217\" itemprop=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/image\" title=\"IMG_2398\" alt=\"IMG_2398\" style=\"width: 310px; 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Club members had to watch their step when they visited a vernal pond at Silver Creek Conservation Area last weekend. Salamanders were active and thick on the ground, ignoring low temperatures to conduct their annual nocturnal &#8220;spring thing&#8221;. Jefferson Salamanders (a threatened species) and Spotted &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hnpnc.com\/site\/tis-the-season-for-salamanders\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tis&#8217; the season for Salamanders<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[59],"tags":[108,86],"class_list":["post-1159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-other","tag-amphibians","tag-salamanders"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4gne2-iH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnpnc.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnpnc.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnpnc.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnpnc.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnpnc.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hnpnc.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1163,"href":"https:\/\/hnpnc.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159\/revisions\/1163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnpnc.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnpnc.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnpnc.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}