{"id":7112,"date":"2013-09-07T20:44:43","date_gmt":"2013-09-08T03:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/?p=7112"},"modified":"2013-09-07T20:45:51","modified_gmt":"2013-09-08T03:45:51","slug":"shrimp-in-the-desert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/shrimp-in-the-desert\/","title":{"rendered":"Shrimp in the Desert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/mjensen-tank-3182.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-7113\" alt=\"mjensen-tank-3182\" src=\"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/mjensen-tank-3182-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/mjensen-tank-3182-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/mjensen-tank-3182-94x94.jpg 94w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Recent rains have partially filled a cattle tank where the McDowell Sonoran Conservancy has been doing a survey documenting migrating water birds. Although I did see several birds and a few Killdeer, there were no ducks this time. <!--more-->Before I left, I decided to go down to the water&#8217;s edge and look for tiny toads or frogs. There was lots of activity by something that looked like brown tadpoles.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7114\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/mjensen-tadpole-shrimp-3170.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7114\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-7114 \" alt=\"Tadpole Shrimp (Triops)\" src=\"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/mjensen-tadpole-shrimp-3170-600x450.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/mjensen-tadpole-shrimp-3170-600x450.jpg 600w, http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/mjensen-tadpole-shrimp-3170-800x600.jpg 800w, http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/mjensen-tadpole-shrimp-3170-620x465.jpg 620w, http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/mjensen-tadpole-shrimp-3170.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7114\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tadpole Shrimp (Triops)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I took photos and several video clips and headed home. After looking at the video, I realized they behaved a little like Shrimp and after a bit of Googling, I found out they are called Tadpole Shrimp! It is truly amazing what might be hibernating in the mud just waiting for a little rain! <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Triops\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>CLICK HERE<\/strong><\/a> for some information about these creatures.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click Below for my YouTube Video<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=A7iy2Z-l4fE\">Tadpole Shrimp (Triops)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent rains have partially filled a cattle tank where the McDowell Sonoran Conservancy has been doing a survey documenting migrating water birds. Although I did see several birds and a few Killdeer, there were no ducks this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,28,553,953,58,57],"tags":[259,975],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7112"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7112"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7122,"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7112\/revisions\/7122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}