{"id":17209,"date":"2019-06-23T11:55:44","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T15:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=17209"},"modified":"2019-06-26T10:22:59","modified_gmt":"2019-06-26T14:22:59","slug":"eastern-fence-lizard-sceloporus-undulatus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=17209","title":{"rendered":"Eastern Fence Lizard (<em>Sceloporus undulatus<\/em>)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_17212\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/img_20190623_166849.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17212\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/img_20190623_166849-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Eastern Fence Lizard (Sceloporus undulatus)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17212\" data-wp-pid=\"17212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/img_20190623_166849-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/img_20190623_166849-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/img_20190623_166849-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/img_20190623_166849-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/img_20190623_166849-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/img_20190623_166849.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-17212\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eastern Fence Lizard (<em>Sceloporus undulatus<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>After helping Jean pack up all the paraphernalia from yesterday&#8217;s wedding and reception and then a quick trip into town for breakfast (since the resort punted on supplying the complementary breakfast they had promised), Cathy, Dorothy and I went for a walk to some stone ruins on the property. When we got to the ruins, Cathy (I think) said something about it being a good place for snakes. Sure enough, there was a mid-sized eastern ratsnake (<em>Pantherophis alleghaniensis<\/em>) sunning itself in a crack in the wall. A few minutes later, when Cathy screamed, Dorothy and I assumed it was another snake but it was this eastern fence lizard (<em>Sceloporus undulatus<\/em>), just a little closer than Cathy had been prepared for. I was able to get a few good pictures before it darted away. This is a male, evidenced by the blue patch just visible on the lower part of the neck. It also has a pretty significant infestation of orange mites or some other sort of pathogen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After helping Jean pack up all the paraphernalia from yesterday&#8217;s wedding and reception and then a quick trip into town for breakfast (since the resort punted on supplying the complementary breakfast they had promised), Cathy, Dorothy and I went for a walk to some stone ruins on the property. When we got to the ruins, &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=17209\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[1790,1791,1796,1795,1794,1793,1792],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17209"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17209"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17213,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17209\/revisions\/17213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}