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#frogs

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Ness

Figured this rainy day and night would get them to start coming out and about, had to go on a night walk to see who’s around. Saw around 6 Wood Frogs (one of which is in photo below; none calling yet), 2 Spring Peepers (lots more calling), and 6 Spotted Salamanders. It’s just the beginning though!

A Wood Frog poses on a muddy path with some small gravel. The frog is light brown with lighter cream throat. They have a dark line that leads to the eye and is referred to as a mask. There are also some dark spots on their side.
#WoodFrog#amphibians#spring
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Jer 🚵🏼

Cleaned up some of the pond, but those long leaves/fronds are tough to break up, even in death.
A little while later and things are hopping, so to speak. I’m starting to suspect these are the toads we get early in the season. We'll see if there's ungodly singing tonight with strands of eggs scattered around the pond like an unravelled sweater.
#toads #frogs

messy pond with two “couples” of toads or frogs mating, the smaller male is on top and clasping the bigger female, I think the idea being when she starts laying eggs he’ll fertilize them. These guys sing late into the night and have been known to grab onto almost anything.
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elbowcrooker

Further to my recent post about frogspawn, I'm happy to report that it has all hatched out. Hundreds of juvenile tadpoles have wriggled free of the 'jelly' and can now be seen feeding on it. They have been joined by a pond snail which is also tucking into this nutritious substance. The red caterpillar-like things are catkins from the silver birch and poplar trees that overlook the pond.
#frogs #tadpoles #pond #pondlife #ponds #gardening #wildlifegardening

Hundreds of tiny tadpoles can be seen at the surface of the pond. Due to natural predation only a small proportion of them will emerge weeks later as froglets.
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Kathy Jones (she/her) (Birds Canada) 🍁🇨🇦

Best of luck to the Great Lakes Marsh Monitoring Program frog surveyors who get to start surveying #wetlands. Frogs are starting to call in our southern portions of the #GreatLakes watershed/

Learn about the program at birdscanada.org/gl_mmp
See what routes in are available google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?mid
#frogs #birds #BirdsCanada #MMPSurvey #Volunteer for #Science

An Orange square with a large photo of a teeny tiny orange spring peeper frog. The frog is in mid-call so that its vocal sac is so large its bigger than its head and almost translucent. The frog is sitting on a small piece of reed. Words are It's time to survey! and the Birds Canada logo is included.
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elbowcrooker

'Pond life' is sometimes used as an insult applied to particularly contemptible people but I feel that this is unfair to actual pond-dwelling creatures which, by contrast, are mostly harmless and frequently fascinating lifeforms.
Frogspawn is a case in point. You can see that our tiny garden pond is full of the stuff. Zoom in and you can tell that the embryos are starting to elongate towards the shape of a tadpole.
#pond #frogspawn #tadpoles #frogs #pondlife #wildlife #gardening #reptiles

4 or 5 large 'dollops' of frogspawn can be seen in our small garden pond.
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