{"id":607,"date":"2012-11-13T15:52:14","date_gmt":"2012-11-13T22:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/mscblog\/?p=607"},"modified":"2012-11-14T15:25:07","modified_gmt":"2012-11-14T22:25:07","slug":"aquatic-flora-in-the-preserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/mscblog\/aquatic-flora-in-the-preserve\/","title":{"rendered":"Aquatic Flora in the Preserve"},"content":{"rendered":"

Much of the Preserve was once used for ranching so if you’ve done a lot of hiking, you’ve no doubt come across a Tank (a man made retention pond created for the purpose of watering their cattle). We’ve had some heavy rains in the last month and a half so there is a good deal of water in some of them. Since discovering a tank during a recent insect survey outing, I’ve been frequenting it regularly for the purpose of documenting water birds for our Bird Survey. (http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/mscblog\/beating-the-bushes\/<\/a>).<\/p>\n

I also enjoy looking for interesting shapes and patterns so I went back specifically to photograph the abstracts I knew I’d find in the cracking ground. There were lots to photograph but when I looked really closely at the surface through my macro lens, I was fascinated by what looked like tiny green eggs.<\/p>\n

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I sent an email to Ron Rutowski<\/a><\/strong> to see if he knew what they were and he passed my request to a couple of his Aquatic Ecology colleagues who confirmed it as a colony of Cyanobacteria<\/a><\/strong> which is commonly called Blue-Green Algae. Like the Red-spotted Toad, these Algae can lay dormant for years and then come back to life with the least bit of water. I love learning something new! To learn more about this algae, click on the highlighted\/bold word in the previous sentence.<\/p>\n

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Much of the Preserve was once used for ranching so if you’ve done a lot of hiking, you’ve no doubt come across a Tank (a man made retention pond created for the purpose of watering their cattle). We’ve had some heavy rains in the last month and a half so there is a good deal … Continue reading Aquatic Flora in the Preserve<\/span> →<\/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],"tags":[51,52,53],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/mscblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607"}],"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=607"}],"version-history":[{"count":67,"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/mscblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":671,"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/mscblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions\/671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/mscblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/mscblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/mscblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}