As part of my ongoing collaboration with Wheeler Middle School biology teacher Kristi Williams, I spent the morning and afternoon working the dip nets with Kristi's 6th grade science students and identifying the catch. On a truly torrid day more like midsummer than late spring, we somehow managed to avoid anyone taking an accidentally-on-purpose plunge into a wide area of the Assekonk Brook. But, hot or not, we kept on task and discovered an incredible array of pond creatures, among them damselfly and dragonfly larvae, freshwater isopods and amphipods, biting bugs, baby mosquitoes, water beetles, crayfish, and, perhaps coolest and certainly least expected of all, a very young American Eel. Of course, the stars of the show were the batrachians. This Pickerel Frog, firmly and correctly held by an expert, put in a command photographic performance.