A naturalist friend asked if I could help her find frog eggs for a CELT program with 4th graders at Pond Cove Elementary School. On the way into the woods I almost stepped on a garter snake! It was a good sized snake, and we paused to watch it slither into the brush. We had no luck finding any eggs--even the salamander eggs I have been watching were gone (washed away in the last rainstorm?). We did see some green frogs though! The two I saw were basking in the sun on the edge of the pond. I tried to catch one with a net, but no luck! They were too fast for me.
Info about green frogs:
- Bright yellow throat on male. Green-bronze/brown. External eardrums large. Dorsolateral ridges. White belly, darker pattern of stripes/spots
- Voice described as sounding like the twang of a banjo
- Breeding takes place March-August. 3-4 clutches of up to 7000 eggs laid under water.
- Nocturnal. Rest along shore, dive into water if approached/threatened.
- Eats any animal it can fit in its mouth, mostly insects.
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