{"id":14005,"date":"2014-03-29T12:08:38","date_gmt":"2014-03-29T17:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=14005"},"modified":"2014-03-31T00:41:33","modified_gmt":"2014-03-31T05:41:33","slug":"spring-peepers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=14005","title":{"rendered":"Spring Peepers!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/sp-closeup-001-960.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14007\" title=\"sp closeup 001 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/sp-closeup-001-480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/sp-closeup-001-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/sp-closeup-001-480-300x247.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>Closeup of Spring Peeper (Pseudacris crucifer)<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Nothing in Nature says springtime in the Great White North more than a chorus of spring peepers.\u00c2\u00a0 Even with ice still clinging to the edges of pond, creeks and bogs, the gradual warmth of late March spurs these tiny critters to combine their voices into a symphony of hope &#8230; punctuated by the gutteral tones of a section of\u00c2\u00a0throaty wood frogs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/sp-profile-000a-960.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14009\" title=\"sp profile 000a 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/sp-profile-000a-480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/sp-profile-000a-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/sp-profile-000a-480-300x183.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>Spring Peeper (Pseudacris crucifer)<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Last evening, March 28th, gentle rains blew into the SouthCoast of Massacusetts with a warming breeze.\u00c2\u00a0 The Turtle Journal team waited until dark, then trekked over to an abandoned bog to savor the concert.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"360\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/C0Vb1CR5wKU?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"480\" height=\"360\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/C0Vb1CR5wKU?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/C0Vb1CR5wKU\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">IF YOU HAVE AN iPAD &amp; CAN&#8217;T SEE VIDEO; CLICK HERE.<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>Spring Peeper (Pseudacris crucifer)<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Alas, spring has arrived and irrepressible Nature has gained ascendency.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Closeup of Spring Peeper (Pseudacris crucifer) Nothing in Nature says springtime in the Great White North more than a chorus of spring peepers.\u00c2\u00a0 Even with ice still clinging to the edges of pond, creeks and bogs, the gradual warmth of late March spurs these tiny critters to combine their voices into a symphony of hope [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[402,826],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14005"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14005"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14064,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14005\/revisions\/14064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}