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Toad time
April 14, 2020 - It was chilly for most of the day... but not too cool to keep the Spring Peepers and American Toads from making a genuin...
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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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Non-metaphorical
March 30, 2019 - The order of the day was to head to Avalonia's amazing TriTown Forest Preserve to sample the vernal pools atop Rixtown M...
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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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Vernal night hike
March 27, 2019 - One of the greatest joys of my life has been the numerous natural history walks I've been able to lead over the years to...
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Refreezing
February 09, 2019 - Against what should have been my better judgement, I decided to join a group of die-hard hikers on a trek of the blue tr...
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SS, find home
November 02, 2018 - Anyone who knows me even slightly soon discovers my affection for amphibians. This love often, particularly in the early...
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Handsome widower
July 10, 2018 - There's been something of a dearth of odonates this month and last, and their relative absence has both mystified and un...
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No blue spots here
September 15, 2017 - I got a call from my youngest grandson Luc, who is now an eighth-grader with a longstanding love of all things amphibian...
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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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Still peeping
April 17, 2017 - Last night, I went over to a friend's middle-of-a-hayfield vernal pool to get video of American Toads trilling, but no s...
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Another Big Night
March 26, 2017 - When the vernal pools come to life, the change is often breathtakingly sudden, dramatic, and, of course, loud. This afte...
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Icebox, redux
March 06, 2017 - With the return of cold so fierce that yesterday, I just about wound up with frostbite in my thumb—and I was wearing fai...
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The amphibian premiere
February 25, 2017 - I don't think anyone will be surprised, but this year's edition of March Madness—the debut of amphibian mating life, not...
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The real blue ribbon
April 20, 2016 - I am not obsessed with Thamnophis sauritus... honest... but on today's trek to examine a new and utterly gorgeous woodla...
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High water
April 10, 2016 - I'm always worrying about the state of the rainfall, and though, according to the US Drought Monitor, our stretch of the...
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Still frozen hollers
January 29, 2016 - The thaw is on, and everything frozen is melting rapidly. But in the more shadowy hollows—er, to use my favorite bluegra...
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Please release me
June 13, 2015 - The Wood froglets that I've been raising since my granddaughter and I brought home a hatchling-filled egg mass late in A...
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Study in ice
January 17, 2015 - Ice has been a recurrent theme in the recent week's walks... and posts. This abstraction, however, was pretty much unexp...
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A new experiment
November 24, 2014 - In the mid-1970s, I was a biology student at the University of Rhode Island. It was my second attempt at college, and th...
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Rocky road
November 21, 2014 - I had a little bit of time between trying to work my way through some overdue writing projects, and I wanted to check on...
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