We got quite a bit of rain last week, there actually wasn't a lot of amphibian movement because it was pretty cold, but it warmed back up this weekend and one bay in particular--Flamingo Bay-- just had a ton going on. The number of toad tadpoles was absolutely unbelievable, I'll talk more about those later b/c I want to look at my photos/videos more. There was a great combination of southern toad tadpoles, some very recently hatched and some that clearly hatched a couple of weeks ago. There was a whole slew of spadefoot toad eggs, a new round of leopard frog eggs, leopard frogs were still calling, and spotted several snakes, one of last year's yellow bellied slider babies, and a green treefrog. Definitely will be back to Flamingo this week. Supposed to be 88 tomorrow and more storms coming so with some warm rainy nights it could get even better. Here we've got a photo of the bay, sorry for the water droplets on my underwater casing, a cluster of leopard frog egg masses, a single mass and then a close-up of one. These are fairly fresh, you can see the developing embryos are still very spherical. I'll try to post more later as they develop.
We got quite a bit of rain last week, there actually wasn't a lot of amphibian movement because it was pretty cold, but it warmed back up this weekend and one bay in particular--Flamingo Bay-- just had a ton going on. The number of toad tadpoles was absolutely unbelievable, I'll talk more about those later b/c I want to look at my photos/videos more. There was a great combination of southern toad tadpoles, some very recently hatched and some that clearly hatched a couple of weeks ago. There was a whole slew of spadefoot toad eggs, a new round of leopard frog eggs, leopard frogs were still calling, and spotted several snakes, one of last year's yellow bellied slider babies, and a green treefrog. Definitely will be back to Flamingo this week. Supposed to be 88 tomorrow and more storms coming so with some warm rainy nights it could get even better. Here we've got a photo of the bay, sorry for the water droplets on my underwater casing, a cluster of leopard frog egg masses, a single mass and then a close-up of one. These are fairly fresh, you can see the developing embryos are still very spherical. I'll try to post more later as they develop. 
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