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Pondtificate: to go on at length about one's pond
Some year or other I will actually post pictures as I take them. This spring was not it; therefore there will be three of this post.
Ms Froggy! (photo taken May 18) It's not particularly clear in this picture, but she is a female Northern Green Frog, which I could tell because a) her tympanium (the big round spot below the eye, here obscured by a root) is smaller than her eye (same size or smaller is female, larger is male) and she has a pair of "dorsilateral ridges" running from behind her eyes down her back. (If she didn't have those, she would be a young bullfrog.) At this point she's got a pondmate who I haven't managed to get a good look at, so I don't know if they're two alike or what.
( pond, snail, edibles, & sundrops )
Ms Froggy! (photo taken May 18) It's not particularly clear in this picture, but she is a female Northern Green Frog, which I could tell because a) her tympanium (the big round spot below the eye, here obscured by a root) is smaller than her eye (same size or smaller is female, larger is male) and she has a pair of "dorsilateral ridges" running from behind her eyes down her back. (If she didn't have those, she would be a young bullfrog.) At this point she's got a pondmate who I haven't managed to get a good look at, so I don't know if they're two alike or what.
( pond, snail, edibles, & sundrops )
