The most amazing thing at Flamingo Bay the other day was the the number of southern toad tadpoles. All along the edges and at islands of vegetation it was just a river of toads. Given the size of the bay the number of toads was pretty ridiculous. We looked closely at one little area and figured there had to be 50,000 or so in the one little section. I'll have to go back soon because in addition to the southern toad tadpoles there were huge amounts of spadefoot toad eggs. By now they've also hatched so it must be even more impressive. Guess it will be a good year for toads there. The bay filled so late that there are next to no salamander larvae in there to be feasting away on toad tadpoles. The pictures I took really didn't do it justice but hope the
video I put on you tube will help give the sense of the non-stop flow of tadpoles. In the photo on top every single black speck is a tadpole then below it is zoomed in and you can see the spadefoot toad eggs---the grayish mass.
The most amazing thing at Flamingo Bay the other day was the the number of southern toad tadpoles. All along the edges and at islands of vegetation it was just a river of toads. Given the size of the bay the number of toads was pretty ridiculous. We looked closely at one little area and figured there had to be 50,000 or so in the one little section. I'll have to go back soon because in addition to the southern toad tadpoles there were huge amounts of spadefoot toad eggs. By now they've also hatched so it must be even more impressive. Guess it will be a good year for toads there. The bay filled so late that there are next to no salamander larvae in there to be feasting away on toad tadpoles. The pictures I took really didn't do it justice but hope the video I put on you tube will help give the sense of the non-stop flow of tadpoles. In the photo on top every single black speck is a tadpole then below it is zoomed in and you can see the spadefoot toad eggs---the grayish mass.
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