On the same walk as my blogs for ‘Honey Bees, Bumble Bees and Wannabees‘, and ‘A Mixed Bag of Birds at Fiver Rivers‘, I photographed the pond life that’s started to flourish once more since the winter ice melted away.
Snapping Turtle on the move… slowly!
A Snapping Turtle that appears to need a bigger log to haul-out onto.
Eastern Painted Turtles
Juvenile Eastern Painted Turtle plus fish and a Water Strider (lower right)
A bullfrog tadpole resting in shallow water (after over-wintering under the ice)
The dorsolateral folds (i.e. raised lines down either side of its back) show this to be a one-year-old Green Frog (Rana clamitans melanota)