{"id":611,"date":"2013-07-02T01:42:55","date_gmt":"2013-07-02T05:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/?p=611"},"modified":"2014-04-07T01:07:09","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T05:07:09","slug":"toadflax-and-spindletrees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/toadflax-and-spindletrees\/","title":{"rendered":"Toadflax and Spindletrees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On our Friday walk around Jamaica Pond, we came across both a plant and a tree in flower.  The plant, yellow toadfloax (<i>Linaria vulgaris<\/i>), has a spike of yellow flowers with orange centers.<\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_617\" aria-labelledby=\"figcaption_attachment_617\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 610px\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/linaria_vulgaris_0001_jamaica_pond.jpg\" alt=\"Orange and yellow toadflax flowers\" width=\"600\" height=\"651\" class=\"size-full wp-image-617\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/linaria_vulgaris_0001_jamaica_pond.jpg 600w, http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/linaria_vulgaris_0001_jamaica_pond-276x300.jpg 276w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"figcaption_attachment_617\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yellow toadflax<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThe European spindletree&#8217;s (<i>Euonymus europaeus<\/i>) flowers were easier to miss. A greenish-white, these flowers turn into the much more conspicuous red fruit typical of euonymus plants.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_615\" aria-labelledby=\"figcaption_attachment_615\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 810px\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/euonymus_europaeus_0003_jamaica_pond.jpg\" alt=\"European spindletree flowers\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" class=\"size-full wp-image-615\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/euonymus_europaeus_0003_jamaica_pond.jpg 800w, http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/euonymus_europaeus_0003_jamaica_pond-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"figcaption_attachment_615\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">European spindletree flowers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The baby Canadian geese are now much more mature-looking, although they still haven&#8217;t outgrown their downy coverings.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_616\" aria-labelledby=\"figcaption_attachment_616\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 810px\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/goose.jpg\" alt=\"Juvenile Canada goose\" width=\"800\" height=\"550\" class=\"size-full wp-image-616\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/goose.jpg 800w, http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/goose-300x206.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"figcaption_attachment_616\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Juvenile Canada goose<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>With all the rain we&#8217;ve been having, water levels are high.  The trunks of the river birches that line the banks of the Pond are underwater.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/birches.jpg\" alt=\"River birches underwater along Jamaica Pond\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-613\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/birches.jpg 800w, http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/birches-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If it weren&#8217;t for the willow trees, the island would also be under water.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/willows.jpg\" alt=\"Willow island on Jamaica Pond under water\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-618\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/willows.jpg 800w, http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/willows-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A closer look at those willows and we see a few birds sitting on their branches.  Double-crested cormorants!  I believe the one on the left is a juvenile.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_614\" aria-labelledby=\"figcaption_attachment_614\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 810px\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/cormorants.jpg\" alt=\"Double-crested cormorants sitting in willow trees\" width=\"800\" height=\"502\" class=\"size-full wp-image-614\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/cormorants.jpg 800w, http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/cormorants-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"figcaption_attachment_614\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Double-crested cormorants sitting in willow trees<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On our Friday walk around Jamaica Pond, we came across both a plant and a tree in flower. The plant, yellow toadfloax (Linaria vulgaris), has a spike of yellow flowers with orange centers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[273,130,58,190,64,105,271,272,269,72,63,270,493,43,6,5,28],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1401,"href":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions\/1401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}