BREAKING NEWS!
We are now all under a
stay-at-home order or suggestion or request, I am not sure. And it draws us
into our tight little boxes of safety. Our homes. That's how we will beat our common enemy. Yet outside nature has its general sense of normalcy, the annual progression of the seasons.
Using the broadest definition of "home" as being our house and the surrounding people-less grounds around it, our man-in-the-wetland put on his cleanest muddy shoes to check the marshy area in the lowlands behind
the newsroom.
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As he expected, he found
small tadpoles in several vernal pools. This is reassuring since the ancestors
of our modern day true frogs have been making tadpoles for 175 to 199.6 million
years and we would not want them to stop. Finding tadpoles is always a good
sign of the cleanliness of the water since frogs are very sensitive to any
chemical pollution in their environs.
Our reporter suspects that
the tadpoles are either western chorus frogs (Pseudacris triseriata) or spring peepers (Pseudacris crucifer) because it's early in the season, probably the latter.
He was also pleased to find the tracks of a wild turkey and see a barred owl fly over since he had been hearing them for weeks.
More as this story
develops.
This is station Ob-la-di, ob-la-da signing out.
This is station Ob-la-di, ob-la-da signing out.
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