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Early May... fly
April 12, 2017 - "Summer" arrived out of nowhere, and the temperature quickly leapt into the 70s with abundant sunshine, garden flowers a...
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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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Vernal reborn
January 29, 2017 - It was a bit chillier than it has been, but still way too warm for January, so, with the ice all but gone, I headed over...
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Vernal RIP
December 29, 2016 - Today's journey took me to the main vernal pool at the Babcock Ridge preserve. It's a frequent destination, and after th...
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Bad luck, good luck
November 20, 2016 - At the end of last month, I rejoiced to see, on a very rainy night, that one of the vernal pools I monitor at the Babcoc...
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Invert magic
April 11, 2016 - In the Harry Potter series, one of the courses at Hogwarts that makes a frequent appearance is called "The Care of Magic...
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Caught in the act. . . finally
March 24, 2016 - If ever there is a more challenging critter to photograph than a Spring Peeper, I don't know what it might be. To be sur...
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Big macs
March 11, 2016 - After a few last days in hiding, the Spotted Salamanders finally came out of their subterranean below-the-frost-line hau...
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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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Icebreaking
January 02, 2016 - Maybe we actually will have a meteorological winter in 2016... After the insanely warm start of the Once-Cold Season, th...
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Ice arrival
November 24, 2015 - The mercury in the maximum-minimum Taylor thermometer touched 19 degrees F. at daybreak, and when I went out for a morni...
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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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