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urbpan ([personal profile] urbpan) wrote2010-02-28 05:52 pm

Urban Nature Pictures 2/28, Lost Pond Reservation



I saw movement in the shore of the icy pond, and pulled out a tadpole.






This is our way into the reservation. The sign indicates that it's also the entrance to Brookline's "Household Hazardous Recycling Drop Off Center."

[identity profile] aemiis-zoo.livejournal.com 2010-03-01 12:06 am (UTC)(link)
Is that a bullfrog tadpole?

[identity profile] urbpan.livejournal.com 2010-03-01 12:31 am (UTC)(link)
If it was, it was a young one (first year). I also found a much bigger one which was definitely a bullfrog--the one in this picture could have been a green frog or leopard frog I guess--maybe even a wood frog. I didn't examine it long enough or closely enough to tell. I was trying to remember what frogs I've heard there last summer, and all I remember are bullfrogs.

[identity profile] m0053.livejournal.com 2010-03-01 05:37 am (UTC)(link)
How do you identify a tadpole? They all just look black to me 0.o

[identity profile] urbpan.livejournal.com 2010-03-01 10:01 am (UTC)(link)
In good light you'd see distinguishing characteristics. The locations of the mouth and eyes ares important, and they can have distinctive patterns on the skin and tail.

http://www.trentu.ca/biology/berrill/IdentificationTable.htm