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Mini-mini wood frog
July 12, 2019 - The almost monsoonal rains we've enjoyed this spring and summer have been a boon to the mosquitoes, and that's not somet...
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Batrachian birthrite
March 28, 2019 - Now this is a rare scene that I wish we'd been graced with last night on the public vernals trek. With a strong Wood Fro...
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Batrachian beginnings
March 22, 2019 - Today was given over, starting with the countdown to 9:05 in the morning, the precise time my granddaughter Stasia greet...
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On the move
October 14, 2017 - While it's been quite cool in the mornings, the afternoons have warmed up nicely, and I'm hardly the only organism takin...
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The graduate
July 16, 2017 - Sigh... on a gorgeous, sunny, dry, and not-too-warm day, I spent far too much of it indoors trying to finish yet another...
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Wood frog preparation
May 01, 2017 - I somehow survived turning a year older, and as a reward for my dogged longevity—OK, 67 isn't really that old, particula...
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Serpent out of sleep
March 29, 2017 - I wouldn't call it exactly warm, but it was temperate enough that the Wood Frogs and Spring Peepers were in fine voice,...
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Early taste of thaw
January 11, 2017 - From the kitchen porch, I could hear the thaw, that hallowed warming trend in January that gives us a taste of spring du...
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Baby explorer
October 03, 2016 - Mondays have long been special. In addition to the unforgiving deadline imposed by the weekly natural history column, A...
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Lookin' for a home
March 18, 2016 - There are other fascinating critters besides the prominent Wood Frogs and Spotted Salamanders out and about in the verna...
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Fresh eggs
March 09, 2016 - Yesterday's bout of Wood Frog calling ended once the sun went down and the temperatures drifted back below 40. As is alw...
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First frogs
March 08, 2016 - After a chilly start to the day, the temperatures inched up... and up... and up... and when all was said and done, it wa...
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The awakening
March 07, 2016 - The first day of spring, as marked by the vernal equinox—the moment that the sun crosses the celestial equator and the h...
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For the record
February 04, 2016 - It's been raining most of today, and it's been April warm with, I felt, the prospect of frogs. Hearing batrachian quacks...
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Sunning serpent
September 28, 2015 - My grandson Luc has been spending Monday afternoons at our house, and after we get him to his piano lesson and back here...
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Free at last
June 25, 2015 - And then there was one... one juvenile Wood Frog, that is. When Stasia and I stocked the aquarium with tadpoles last May...
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Hot frog on ice
April 08, 2015 - It was raining off and on, but that, of course, didn't bother the frogs... or the naturalist, so, as soon as I had all t...
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X-rated
April 02, 2015 - I heard the first Wood Frogs yesterday afternoon—a chorus that many people mistake for the mutterings of annoyed ducks—b...
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