Melissa | May 10, 2009
We absolutely had a blast at our first Nature Club meeting!! We visited a gorgeous nature park where we walked on a long trail winding down to a bottomlands where we visited a huge creek for play in and around. I can’t tell you how wonderful it was to see kids and parents together enjoying [...]
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Melissa | April 30, 2009
Yep, we’re at it again. We were diligent in looking almost every day, and this time when we found them they had just hatched in a vernal pool near the creek. We gathered some up and took them home. They are only a few days old, but my have they grown already! [...]
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Melissa | August 1, 2008
After our wonderful experience of hatching and raising toads, we were so thrilled that a couple of days ago Alex was able to find a medium sized American Toad in our yard. I handed him some instructions on how to make an American Toad habitat that I found HERE. He did a fantastic job of [...]
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Melissa | June 14, 2008
Wouldn’t you know it, I sure did, that all but one of our toad tadpoles had turned into tiny toads by the time we got back from vacation! But what a blessing that this one little tadpole held out for us! My very good friend Kari was tadpole-sitting them for us and had to release them [...]
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Melissa | June 3, 2008
One more photo before we leave! You can see their legs now! Click to full size. Back to packing!
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Melissa | June 2, 2008
The update for our toad tadpoles is coming a little early this time because…we have LEGS! Several of the tadpoles, seemlingly overnight, grew little tiny back legs! I so wish I had a HD camera so that you could see the little “paper-thin” legs swishing around when they swim!LOL But I think you may only [...]
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