{"id":939,"date":"2019-08-19T21:18:16","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T00:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/longlakepark.ca\/news\/?p=939"},"modified":"2023-03-04T21:07:30","modified_gmt":"2023-03-05T00:07:30","slug":"wildlife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/longlakepark.ca\/news\/?p=939","title":{"rendered":"Wildlife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Long Lake Park provides many opportunities to view wildlife. Black ducks (Anas rubripes) are often found on the park&#8217;s lakes with ducklings during summer. The pair (male and female) shown here were on Withrod Lake in August. Small ponds often have frogs such as the Pickerel Frog (Lithobates palustris). The one shown here was recently using a wet hollow on the Old St. Margaret&#8217;s Trail in the park.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/longlakepark.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/BlackDucks.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"940\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/longlakepark.ca\/news\/?attachment_id=940\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/longlakepark.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/BlackDucks.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,675\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"BlackDucks\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/longlakepark.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/BlackDucks-300x253.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/longlakepark.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/BlackDucks.jpg\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-940\" src=\"http:\/\/longlakepark.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/BlackDucks-300x253.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"328\" height=\"279\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/longlakepark.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/PickerelFrog.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"941\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/longlakepark.ca\/news\/?attachment_id=941\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/longlakepark.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/PickerelFrog.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"645,516\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"PickerelFrog\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/longlakepark.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/PickerelFrog-300x240.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/longlakepark.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/PickerelFrog.jpg\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-941\" src=\"http:\/\/longlakepark.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/PickerelFrog-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"348\" height=\"282\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long Lake Park provides many opportunities to view wildlife. Black ducks (Anas rubripes) are often found on the park&#8217;s lakes with ducklings during summer. The pair (male and female) shown here were on Withrod Lake in August. Small ponds often have frogs such as the Pickerel Frog (Lithobates palustris). The one shown here was recently&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/longlakepark.ca\/news\/?p=939\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1737,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-939","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-nature-note","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s5hACB-wildlife","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/longlakepark.ca\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/longlakepark.ca\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/longlakepark.ca\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/longlakepark.ca\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1737"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/longlakepark.ca\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=939"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/longlakepark.ca\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1557,"href":"https:\/\/longlakepark.ca\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939\/revisions\/1557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/longlakepark.ca\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/longlakepark.ca\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/longlakepark.ca\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}