{"id":2707,"date":"2016-07-29T06:40:19","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T06:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?p=2707"},"modified":"2016-07-30T06:44:08","modified_gmt":"2016-07-30T06:44:08","slug":"lizards-at-brockadale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?p=2707","title":{"rendered":"Lizards at Brockadale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fruitful trip to\u00a0Brockadale resulted in a great encounter with these common lizard (Lacerta vivipara) found basking on a log. .<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2708\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2708\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2708\" src=\"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lizard-2-290716.jpg\" alt=\"Common lizard.\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lizard-2-290716.jpg 600w, https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lizard-2-290716-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lizard-2-290716-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2708\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Common lizard.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Like adders, the common lizard manages to reproduce in our relatively cold climate by bearing live young, rather than laying eggs as do most other reptiles.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2709\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2709\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2709\" src=\"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lizard-1-290716.jpg\" alt=\"Common lizard.\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lizard-1-290716.jpg 600w, https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lizard-1-290716-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lizard-1-290716-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2709\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Common lizard.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Grass snakes are found in the Brockadale area but they reproduce by laying eggs. They cope with the British climate by putting the eggs in piles of rotting vegetation, such as compost heaps, where the heat produced by the decomposition keeps the eggs sufficiently warm.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fruitful trip to\u00a0Brockadale resulted in a great encounter with these common lizard (Lacerta vivipara) found basking on a log. . Like adders, the common lizard manages to reproduce in our relatively cold climate by bearing live young, rather than &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?p=2707\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[32],"tags":[90,266,267],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2707"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2707"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2712,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2707\/revisions\/2712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}