Showing posts with label American toad. Show all posts
Showing posts with label American toad. Show all posts

Saturday, June 11, 2011

Some Flora and Fauna

White-spotted Sable Moth (Anania funebris glomeralis)-1.jpg
White-spotted Sable Moth (Anania funebris glomeralis)

American Toad (Anaxyrus americanus)-6.jpg
American Toad (Anaxyrus americanus)

True Forget-me-nots (Myosotis scorpioides)-6.jpg
True Forget-me-nots (Myosotis scorpioides)

Photographed at the Brick Kingdom, May 28, 2011

True Forget-me-nots (Myosotis scorpioides)-3.jpg

Question Mark Butterfly (Polygonia interrogationis)-7.jpg
Question Mark Butterfly (Polygonia interrogationis)

Tamarack Tree-2.jpg
(Larix laricina)

Tamarack-2.jpg

Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale)-7.jpg
Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale)

Geometer Moth-3.jpg
Geometer Moth (Genus Geometridae)

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Thursday, May 26, 2011

An American Toad

American toad (Anaxyrus americanus)-1.jpg
Anaxyrus americanus
old Bufo americanus americanus

After living here nearly a decade and only seeing one toad, I have now seen two in one year. Hopefully the toad population is rising. This toad was very tiny and was in the apple orchard above the house near one of the brooks. As I tried to silently move blades of grass that were obscuring this toad, it disappeared. We found that it went down a hole in the ground!

By the way: if you see eggs in a pond and they are laid in a string, they are toad eggs. Eggs laid in a mass are frog eggs.

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