{"id":291,"date":"2012-06-11T10:39:17","date_gmt":"2012-06-11T17:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/mscblog\/?p=291"},"modified":"2012-08-25T08:50:38","modified_gmt":"2012-08-25T15:50:38","slug":"camouflage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/mscblog\/camouflage\/","title":{"rendered":"Camouflage"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_292\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-292\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/mscblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/mjensen-fauna-rattlesnake-2391.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-292\" title=\"mjensen-fauna-rattlesnake-2391\" src=\"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/mscblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/mjensen-fauna-rattlesnake-2391-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/mscblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/mjensen-fauna-rattlesnake-2391-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/mscblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/mjensen-fauna-rattlesnake-2391.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-292\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Western Diamondback Rattlesnake asleep<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I hiked in the North Access of the Preserve late afternoon yesterday and on the way back, I almost stepped on a Diamondback! Can you see him? Look to the left about center. Great camouflage! A good lesson to be extra careful in low light because you won&#8217;t see them!<\/p>\n<p>I documented all the things needed for the Herp Survey and then left without disturbing him. (<em>Click on photos for full size<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/mscblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/mjensen-fauna-rattlesnake-2398.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-295\" title=\"mjensen-fauna-rattlesnake-2398\" src=\"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/mscblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/mjensen-fauna-rattlesnake-2398-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/mscblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/mjensen-fauna-rattlesnake-2398-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/mscblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/mjensen-fauna-rattlesnake-2398.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This morning I went back out on the same trail and there he was in the exact same spot! Maybe he had a big meal and needed the rest? Anyway&#8230;he was just starting to move so I quickly took some more photos and made note of his length (33 inches). (<em>Click on photos for full size<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/mscblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/mjensen-fauna-rattlesnake-2413.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-300\" title=\"mjensen-fauna-rattlesnake-2413\" src=\"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/mscblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/mjensen-fauna-rattlesnake-2413-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/mscblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/mjensen-fauna-rattlesnake-2427.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-301\" title=\"mjensen-fauna-rattlesnake-2427\" src=\"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/mscblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/mjensen-fauna-rattlesnake-2427-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/mscblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/mjensen-fauna-rattlesnake-2443.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-302\" title=\"mjensen-fauna-rattlesnake-2443\" src=\"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/mscblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/mjensen-fauna-rattlesnake-2443-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hiked in the North Access of the Preserve late afternoon yesterday and on the way back, I almost stepped on a Diamondback! Can you see him? Look to the left about center. Great camouflage! A good lesson to be extra careful in low light because you won&#8217;t see them! I documented all the things &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/mscblog\/camouflage\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Camouflage<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,5,3,32,4,7],"tags":[33,36,35],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/mscblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/mscblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/mscblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/mscblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/mscblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/mscblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324,"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/mscblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions\/324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/mscblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/mscblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/mscblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}