Vernal pool update

  Vernal pool has a quiet, peaceful, secluded kind of connotation doesn't it?  I used to think that. Anyway, what has been happening at the vernal pools lately? Well for one thing, the wood frog tadpoles are really growing.  I think I might have seen about twenty or more of them getting some schooling in a vernal pool I frequent.

This a picture of some wood frog tadpoles getting schooled in some facts of their life.

You see, their schoolmaster is a red-spotted newt and although they may not know it, what they are facing is a carnivorous salamander.

No wonder that wood frogs lay so many eggs.

I'll post some more updates on the vernal pools in the near future.  Here is a link to some of my other posts on vernal pools.