{"id":1066,"date":"2023-07-27T08:00:08","date_gmt":"2023-07-27T13:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcgerik.com\/homestead\/?p=1066"},"modified":"2023-07-26T17:30:06","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T22:30:06","slug":"lizzie-and-a-prairie-skink-plestiodon-septentrionalis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcgerik.com\/homestead\/2023\/07\/27\/lizzie-and-a-prairie-skink-plestiodon-septentrionalis\/","title":{"rendered":"Lizzie and a Prairie Skink (Plestiodon septentrionalis)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prairie Skinks (Plestiodon septentrionalis)<\/a> have been making our yard their home for many years. I often see then near a block retaining wall next to our patio. I suspect they like the many nooks and crannies the retaining wall blocks offer them.<\/p>\n

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A Prairie Skink (Plestiodon septentrionalis) hanging out on our retaining wall.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Lizzie has been vaguely aware of them because she notices them moving through the yard but until recently hadn’t had opportunity to investigate them. The other day, a skink hung out on the retaining wall long enough for us to take photos of it and for Lizzie to sniff it.<\/p>\n

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A Prairie Skink (Plestiodon septentrionalis) hanging out on our retaining wall.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

She was curious but with gentle encouragement we taught her to leave it alone. She eventually lost interest, probably because it wasn’t furry and didn’t squeak like a rodent.<\/p>\n

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A Prairie Skink (Plestiodon septentrionalis) hanging out on our retaining wall.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Prairie Skinks (Plestiodon septentrionalis) have been making our yard their home for many years. I often see then near a block retaining wall next to our patio. I suspect they like the many nooks and crannies the retaining wall blocks offer them. Lizzie has been vaguely aware of them because she notices them moving through … Continue reading “Lizzie and a Prairie Skink (Plestiodon septentrionalis)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,5],"tags":[16,14],"class_list":["post-1066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lizards","category-wildlife","tag-lizzie","tag-prairie-skink"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcgerik.com\/homestead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcgerik.com\/homestead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcgerik.com\/homestead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcgerik.com\/homestead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcgerik.com\/homestead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1066"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mcgerik.com\/homestead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1075,"href":"https:\/\/mcgerik.com\/homestead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions\/1075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcgerik.com\/homestead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcgerik.com\/homestead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcgerik.com\/homestead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}