{"id":8261,"date":"2026-03-23T20:45:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T19:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esthervanderwal.nl\/wordpress\/?p=8261"},"modified":"2026-03-23T20:45:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T19:45:22","slug":"een-beetje-verliefd-op-een-kikker-%f0%9f%90%b8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esthervanderwal.nl\/wordpress\/een-beetje-verliefd-op-een-kikker-%f0%9f%90%b8\/","title":{"rendered":"Een beetje verliefd\u2026 op een kikker \ud83d\udc38"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"initial-letter\"><p>Ik denk dat ik vandaag een beetje verliefd ben geworden. Ja echt. Op een kikker!<br \/>\nEn niet zomaar \u00e9\u00e9n\u2026 maar op de heikikker. Wat een schattig beestje is dat. Niet al te groot, een beetje eigenwijs koppie en \u2013 misschien nog wel het leukste \u2013 die gekke blauwige kleur.<\/p>\n<p>In de vroege lente, zo rond maart en april, trekken heikikkers massaal naar ondiepe poelen om te paren. Het is een korte maar bijzondere periode. De mannetjes kunnen dan ineens een opvallende blauwe gloed krijgen, alsof ze speciaal hun mooiste jasje aantrekken om indruk te maken op de vrouwtjes. Echt een wonderlijk stukje natuur.<\/p>\n<p>Het maakt de ontmoeting extra bijzonder als je bedenkt dat de heikikker een streng beschermde diersoort is in Nederland en Belgi\u00eb. En dat ik ze vanmiddag gewoon mocht zien\u2026 \u00e9n fotograferen. Soms voelt het echt als een cadeautje wanneer je op het juiste moment op de juiste plek bent.<\/p>\n<p>Zo\u2019n klein diertje, maar zo\u2019n groot gevoel van verwondering. 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Ja echt. Op een kikker! En niet zomaar \u00e9\u00e9n\u2026 maar op de heikikker. Wat een schattig beestje is dat. Niet al te groot, een beetje eigenwijs koppie en \u2013 misschien nog wel het leukste \u2013 die gekke blauwige kleur. In de vroege lente, zo rond&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[126,1246],"tags":[1389,1390,501,1247],"class_list":["post-8261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dieren","category-twijzelermieden","tag-heikikker","tag-heikikkers","tag-kikker","tag-twijzelermieden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esthervanderwal.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esthervanderwal.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esthervanderwal.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esthervanderwal.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esthervanderwal.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.esthervanderwal.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8275,"href":"https:\/\/www.esthervanderwal.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8261\/revisions\/8275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esthervanderwal.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esthervanderwal.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esthervanderwal.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esthervanderwal.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}