{"id":405,"date":"2012-03-25T21:25:44","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T02:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/?p=405"},"modified":"2012-10-02T17:09:53","modified_gmt":"2012-10-02T22:09:53","slug":"a-curious-new-neighbor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/?p=405","title":{"rendered":"A curious new neighbor&#8230;.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a quiet, warm Sunday night and we are relaxing in front of the television when I look out the back glass door and find our new neighbor peeking back at us.<a href=\"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/DSCN1455.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-406\" title=\"DSCN1455\" src=\"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/DSCN1455-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/DSCN1455-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/DSCN1455-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/DSCN1455-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a>We jump up and take a closer look and find a juvenile Great Plains Rat Snake has moved into a little crevice underneath the door sill. What an excellent neighbor. Rat snakes are non-venomous and feed mainly on rodents and birds.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/DSCN1462.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-407\" title=\"DSCN1462\" src=\"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/DSCN1462-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/DSCN1462-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/DSCN1462-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/DSCN1462-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a>I could be mistaken but it almost looks like he&#8217;s already enjoyed some dinner as there seems to be a slight bulge in his belly.<a href=\"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/DSCN14641.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-410\" title=\"DSCN1464\" src=\"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/DSCN14641-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/DSCN14641-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/DSCN14641-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/DSCN14641-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/DSCN1466.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-409\" title=\"DSCN1466\" src=\"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/DSCN1466-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/DSCN1466-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/DSCN1466-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/DSCN1466-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a>Great Plains Rat Snakes are usually found in forests, rocky hillsides, rural and residential areas and under man-made debris\/objects. As I take some picture he starts to climb up the wall (they are excellent climbers) and then seems to change his mind and slither back underneath the door sill. I will have to put the local lizard population on alert since they do enjoy eating those too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a quiet, warm Sunday night and we are relaxing in front of the television when I look out the back glass door and find our new neighbor peeking back at us.We jump up and take a closer look and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/?p=405\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":412,"href":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions\/412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}