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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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Greater heights
June 29, 2019 - Yet again, it's been raining, and yet again, it's been hard to spend lots of time outside. But that's me. The amphibians...
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Debut mac egg sacks
March 26, 2019 - In my vernal pool, things have been a little slow getting started. There are certainly plenty of Wood Frogs quacking up...
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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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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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Rites of spring
March 25, 2018 - It's not exactly a warmth trend, but it is warming, and as it does, the Wood Frog Chorale has once again burst into, wel...
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Sociable climber
October 09, 2017 - Rather in answer to my prayers—a new drought has taken hold—the day and night remained damp and dank and we've been bles...
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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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Flagrant frogs
March 01, 2017 - The amphibians came out to court and mate on the rainy evening last Saturday that I wrote about, and among the critters...
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Deformed foot
February 27, 2017 - When the amphibians came out of hiding and hibernation last Saturday night, I made sure to collect a few to show to my g...
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Meeting the hedgehog
February 26, 2017 - Yesterday's ridiculous warmth is giving way to February reality, which is to say, it's getting appropriately chilly agai...
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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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Gold on the move
August 10, 2016 - With the heat wave showing absolutely no sign of departing in the foreseeable future—as in, in my darkest moments, ever...
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Jabba the Frog
July 21, 2016 - I was looking out the kitchen door in preparation for a trek when I noticed something gray and strange on the porch rail...
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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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One that didn't get away
August 15, 2015 - As is often the way at this time of year, the upland areas that surround wetlands of both the permanently or temporarily...
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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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Time-honored tadpole tradition
April 27, 2015 - The Wood Frog tadpoles started hatching a couple of days ago, but most of them are still sticking pretty close to their...
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The amphibian money shot
April 11, 2015 - I have spent probably more time than I should admit watching animals copulating, and I guess that I'm so used to it that...
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All gussied up
October 09, 2014 - After way too long an absence—almost two months—I hauled myself back to my natural history "home-away-from-home": the Th...
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A very young Wood Frog
September 27, 2014 - I went into the woods this morning, a deliciously chilly one, to hunt deliberately, and what I was after was fungi. A ve...
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Madonna and child
August 12, 2014 - One of my early-evening tasks is to walk down the long driveway to my neighbor's house, and, in her absence, feed her Ma...
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