{"id":5977,"date":"2016-10-23T23:47:56","date_gmt":"2016-10-24T06:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/?p=5977"},"modified":"2018-04-22T11:41:35","modified_gmt":"2018-04-22T18:41:35","slug":"tracking-pit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2016\/10\/tracking-pit\/","title":{"rendered":"Tracking pit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the middle school Ecojustice class this morning, one of the things we did was to make a tracking pit. Lorraine brought some mud that got dug up from her yard (if you want to be technical, it&#8217;s a clay-like soil composed of Quaternary alluvial deposits). Some of us worked on moistening the mud till it got to the right consistency, then spreading it out on a flat spot under some bushes:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/BlogOct2316a.jpg\" alt=\"Spreading the mud\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5978\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/BlogOct2316a.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/BlogOct2316a-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/BlogOct2316a-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/BlogOct2316a-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We put a bait cup in the middle of the mud, then crumbled a granola bar into the bait cup. By this evening, the bait was gone, and there were plenty of squirrel tracks in the mud:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_6597.jpg\" alt=\"Squirrel tracks\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5982\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_6597.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_6597-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_6597-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_6597-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The tracks were not as distinct as I would have liked. The mud was a little too wet, and the suqirrels slipped and slid just enough to blur the finer details of their tracks. Nevertheless, these are some pretty good tracks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the middle school Ecojustice class this morning, one of the things we did was to make a tracking pit. Lorraine brought some mud that got dug up from her yard (if you want to be technical, it&#8217;s a clay-like soil composed of Quaternary alluvial deposits). Some of us worked on moistening the mud till &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2016\/10\/tracking-pit\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tracking pit&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[689],"class_list":["post-5977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bay-area-calif","tag-sunday-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5977"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5983,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5977\/revisions\/5983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}