{"id":17519,"date":"2016-10-08T05:56:22","date_gmt":"2016-10-08T05:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=17519"},"modified":"2016-10-08T05:56:22","modified_gmt":"2016-10-08T05:56:22","slug":"baby-slow-worm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=17519","title":{"rendered":"Baby slow worm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have now seen the biggest and the smallest slow worm in our garden this summer. They definitely appear to be breeding in our garden which is nice to know.<\/p>\n<p>We saw this baby slow worm on our patio and I put a pound coin next to it to give some idea of it&#8217;s size.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_17533\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=17533\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17533\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17533\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17533\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/baby_slow_worm_next_to_a-pound_coin.jpg\" alt=\"Baby slow worm next to a pound coin\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/baby_slow_worm_next_to_a-pound_coin.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/baby_slow_worm_next_to_a-pound_coin-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/baby_slow_worm_next_to_a-pound_coin-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-17533\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Baby slow worm next to a pound coin<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_17534\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=17534\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17534\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17534\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17534\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/tiny_slow_worm.jpg\" alt=\"Tiny slow worm on our patio\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/tiny_slow_worm.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/tiny_slow_worm-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/tiny_slow_worm-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-17534\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tiny slow worm on our patio<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We put it in the undergrowth for safety but a little later it was on the brick wall by the patio.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_17535\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=17535\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17535\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17535\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17535\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/a_little_bit_later.jpg\" alt=\"A little bit later it shows up again\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/a_little_bit_later.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/a_little_bit_later-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/a_little_bit_later-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-17535\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A little bit later it shows up again<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I am sure it was the same one as it was a bit further up the same patio. I wonder why they come out into the open where they will be vulnerable. We are being very careful about checking where we step as we don&#8217;t want to step on one.<\/p>\n<p>You can see the other extreme in size on this post &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=16816\">A slow worm\u00a0path on our<\/a> &#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>It is good see the slow worms, big and small, in our garden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have now seen the biggest and the smallest slow worm in our garden this summer. They definitely appear to be breeding in our garden which is nice to know. We saw this baby slow worm on our patio and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=17519\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17519"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17519"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17543,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17519\/revisions\/17543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}