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<\/a>So much wildlife, so little time to describe it all!\u00a0 Spending time in nature is restorative and sure puts our human problems in perspective…. and also reminds us why it’s essential to be attentive to the environment.<\/p>\nNext:\u00a0 The Circle of Life…. what the loons can teach us!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The kids are alright, and the monarchs are back!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":8238,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[40,273,1510],"class_list":["post-8237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adirondack-chronicles","tag-adirondacks","tag-loons","tag-monarch-butterflies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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BREAKING NEWS:\u00a0 (no pun intended) — The eggs hatched!\u00a0 After days of drama (see earlier blogs) those two cuties above came into this world sometime after 6 pm last night, last I looked at the nest until about 10 am this morning.\u00a0 Yes, they are less than 24 hours old and swimming already!\u00a0 Below are remnants of the egg shells…. Many more photos and a more complete accounting to come in my next blog…. Hooray for the loons!<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/files\/2019\/07\/EGGSHELL-AFTER-HATCH.jpg\")
<\/a>In other Adirondack beauties, the hummoths are out in force on the milkweed.\u00a0 These are just crazy bugs, look at those wings and all that fuzz! ….![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/files\/2019\/07\/hummoth-12.jpg\")
<\/a>And the abundant milkweed now attracts the monarch butterflies for whom the milkweed is essential for egg laying …<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/files\/2019\/07\/monarch-Large.jpg\")
And other butterflies brighten the roadside wildflowers…<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/files\/2019\/07\/butterfly-2.jpg\")