{"id":74126,"date":"2017-01-20T14:51:38","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T21:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/?p=74126"},"modified":"2017-01-20T14:51:38","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T21:51:38","slug":"new-jersey-critters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/?p=74126","title":{"rendered":"New Jersey Critters"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New Jersey SOS team explores some seemingly deserted places. We seldom see another person hiking the same trails, and were definitely the only ones wading through salt marshes. When there is a pause, our footsteps slow, upon closer inspection these wild free places are teeming with life under the umbrella of Animalia. This post is a dump of the pictures of all the beautiful creatures that stood still long enough\u00a0to snap a picture. Enjoy.<\/p>\n

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Terrapene carolina carolina<\/i><\/p>\n

Eastern box turtle hiding in their shell. Found em munching down on some Opuntia humifusa<\/em> fruit.<\/p>\n

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Danaus plexippus<\/i><\/p>\n

Monarch caterpillar doing their thang, munching down on Aslepias syriaca<\/em><\/p>\n

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Uca tangeri<\/i><\/p>\n

Fiddler crab dabbin on ya.<\/p>\n

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Argiope aurantia<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n

Writing\u00a0spiders were a common sight around wet tall grass prairie. Their striking colors and zigzag pattern made it easy to ovoid getting caught in their webs.<\/p>\n

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Pandion haliaetus<\/i><\/p>\n

Majestic osprey soaring with a fish clasped in their talons.<\/p>\n

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I don’t know who this is, but dang. Keep rocking those primary colors dawg!<\/p>\n

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Notophthalmus viridescens<\/i><\/p>\n

Red-spotted newts were crawling all over this mountain!<\/p>\n

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Ardea alba<\/i><\/p>\n

The most widespread and elegant bird encountered on the coast, the great egret.<\/p>\n

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Tetraopes tetrophthalmus<\/i><\/p>\n

Red milkweed beetles.<\/p>\n

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Odocoileus virginianus<\/em><\/p>\n

White-tail deer inhabit all ecosystems in New Jersey. Here’s a doe posing on the beach.<\/p>\n

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Malaclemys terrapin<\/i><\/p>\n

A diamondback terrapin mama laying her eggs! She covered the nest so well I couldn’t even tell where it was after she left.<\/p>\n

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The New Jersey SOS team explores some seemingly deserted places. We seldom see another person hiking the same trails, and were definitely the only ones wading through salt marshes. When there is a pause, our footsteps slow, upon closer inspection … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7286,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74126"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7286"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74126"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74477,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74126\/revisions\/74477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}