{"id":883,"date":"2012-05-08T16:12:20","date_gmt":"2012-05-08T21:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=883"},"modified":"2012-05-08T16:12:20","modified_gmt":"2012-05-08T21:12:20","slug":"spring-creek-canyon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=883","title":{"rendered":"Spring Creek Canyon"},"content":{"rendered":"

My current favorite hiking destination: Spring Creek Canyon<\/a>. Scenic, close to home, interesting things to look at.<\/p>\n

\"Spring<\/a><\/p>\n

And it quite looks like a canyon, too, at least in spots.<\/p>\n

You’ll be utterly unsurprised to hear that most of my photographic efforts have gone toward pictures of plants and fungi. But this last trip we saw more interesting animals.<\/p>\n

\"Red<\/a><\/p>\n

This is a raggedy Red Admiral<\/a>. We saw several, but they were mostly uninterested in sitting for a portrait. <\/p>\n

The first snake zipped away too fast for a photo, but this one obliged, at least by zipping to<\/i> somewhere I could get a clear shot.<\/p>\n

\"Northern<\/a><\/p>\n

I’m pretty sure that’s a Northern Water Snake<\/a>. Which would only make sense.<\/p>\n

I learned something interesting while I was looking up Pennsylvania snakes<\/a>: all our poisonous snakes have slitted pupils like a cat, while all our nonvenomous snakes have round pupils.<\/p>\n

\"Northern<\/a><\/p>\n

Round. Neat.<\/p>\n

\"millipede<\/a><\/p>\n

I’ve seen these millipedes every time I’ve been to Spring Creek Canyon this year, from late March onward. <\/p>\n

\"millipede<\/a><\/p>\n

I think they must be Apheloria virginiensis<\/a><\/i>, a common forest dweller. They can be yellow<\/a> instead of orange like the specimen in the Wikipedia link. These millipedes exude cyanide from their skin: I’m glad I didn’t pick any up.<\/p>\n

Poisonous millipedes: I wonder if their pupils are round or slitted? (Actually, insects don’t have pupils.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My current favorite hiking destination: Spring Creek Canyon. Scenic, close to home, interesting things to look at. And it quite looks like a canyon, too, at least in spots. You’ll be utterly unsurprised to hear that most of my photographic efforts have gone toward pictures of plants and fungi. But this last trip we saw […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,56,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-must-be-spring","category-nature-is-amazing","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=883"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":891,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883\/revisions\/891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}