The past two days, as we've walked in the woods, Owen & I have been looking in the wetland areas for indicator species. Yesterday, we found a very small worm and a caddisfly larvae. Today, we saw some tadpoles that quickly scooted away from us, and we found an egg mass. It looks like they are spotted salamander eggs. We returned them to the pool in case any hatch. So far we only hear peepers, but we wait to hear other amphibian species to join the chorus. Some warblers have joined the bird chorus; we definitely have heard a pine warbler.
Great page for info on caddis flies: http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/course/ent425/compendium/caddis~1.html
The caddisfly larvae we found was in a case like the one pictured below, furthest to the right.
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