{"id":2095,"date":"2010-10-08T09:56:32","date_gmt":"2010-10-08T16:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/?p=2095"},"modified":"2010-10-09T23:00:24","modified_gmt":"2010-10-10T06:00:24","slug":"a-mew-in-the-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/archives\/2095","title":{"rendered":"A mew in the night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At 3:00am this morning, I was awoken by a kind of constant whiny mewing just outside my window. A kitten? I didn&#8217;t think so since there are no feral cats around here that I know of and the sound was too small to be a bobcat. Maybe a baby opossum, some kind of rodent, or even a baby skunk?<\/p>\n<p>I listened to it for awhile becoming more insistent and clearly irritated. I woke up Brad.<\/p>\n<p>We went to the window. It seemed to be almost directly against the house, but we couldn&#8217;t see anything. We turned on the outside house lights and got a flashlight. Still nothing. But the mewing continued.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, Brad ventured outside (in his underwear&#8230;quite a sight, and it was cold). What he saw was a s<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reptilesofaz.org\/Turtle-Amphibs-Subpages\/h-s-couchii.html\">pade footed toad<\/a>&#8230;.being eaten by a much smaller snake.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/snake-frog.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2096\" title=\"snake-frog\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/snake-frog-300x86.png\" alt=\"snake-frog\" width=\"483\" height=\"138\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/snake-frog-300x86.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/snake-frog-1024x294.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 483px) 100vw, 483px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The snake looks big in this zoomed up picture, but the snake was only the thickness of a fat pencil and less than a foot long. We think it might have been a juvenile <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reptilesofaz.org\/Snakes-Subpages\/h-h-jani.html\">nightsnake <\/a>but we&#8217;re not sure.<\/p>\n<p>No sign of either party this morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 3:00am this morning, I was awoken by a kind of constant whiny mewing just outside my window. A kitten? I didn&#8217;t think so since there are no feral cats around here that I know of and the sound was too small to be a bobcat. Maybe a baby opossum, some kind of rodent, or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[159,58,45],"class_list":["post-2095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-animal-pictures","tag-animals","tag-wildlife"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}