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Frog
SurprisingToad
Was walking in the woods to take various pictures and this little guy startled me!
Schroon River Friends
As I was setting up camp on some state land near the Schroon River, I encountered a few friends. A small red eft made an appearance on this rock at the campsite and later a wood frog came up to say hello.
Window Tree Frog
I often hear tree frogs calling on summer evenings, but their camouflage makes them hard to see in the forest. So I was happy to see one climb onto a friend's dining room window last week. The sticky pads on the bottom of this guy's (or girl's) feet are clearly visible through the window glass. A cool indoor encounter!
Birds, bugs, and bullfrogs at Indian Creek Nature Center
A morning bird walk with Sue Wilson of St. Lawrence University and the NNY Audubon Society led to encounters with many species of birds (but few good pictures of them), dragonflies and damselflies, chipmunks, bullfrogs, and mosquitoes. The bird in the second photo is an American Red Start.
Catching Pond Life
We caught a tadpole and lots of dragonflies yesterday with Norwood-Norfolk 3rd graders at Indian Creek Nature Center. We also found frogs, damselflies, leeches, and even a few catfish!
Wood Frogs Breeding
Their collective song was loud in the forest air,
but became silent with sudden scare,
beneath a pool big enough to share,
leaving behind the promise of their future heir.
Spring Peepers
It was loud! my ears were ringing for hours after. They're hard to see, and they go quiet when you approach their area. But if you sit still in your waders for 10-15 minutes they all start to emerge and sing around you.
Wood Frogs
Frogs everywhere, the noise was deafening. But as I sat there I felt privileged to witness it.
Froggy frolic
On my dog walk last night on the SLU cinder trail along the Grasse, we encountered a loud chorus of both wood frogs and peepers doing their thing. I came back with mud boots a bit later and waded into the middle of the small seasonal pond. The water seemed almost to be boiling with frog activity in one spot. In the first picture, see how many frogs you can count. As I got closer, all singing stopped, but I just stood near a huge collection of recently spawned eggs.
Saddleback Mountain Chicken Coop Slide
Great scramble up an old slide on Saddleback Mountain with Forest Ranger Scott van Laer and Paxton Rountree-Jablin. Found a next of dark-eyed junkos on the slide and a garter snake making a meal of a toad on the way down. Text and photos at:
http://www.adkhighpeaks.com/forums/showthread.php?t=25765