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The Toads Were All Gone!!
Last Thursday and Friday I spent long hours at Pawlings Farm where truly hundreds of American toads were doing their annual mating dance in the vernal pools. There were not nearly as many as in years past, but still there were hundreds. I told my daughter- in- law that she and her daughter Piper…
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The Toads of Charlestown Meadows
Tom and I have taken long walks almost every day since the beginning of this sheltering in place. We walk around the perimeter of his community – Charlestown Meadows. Today as we walked past a little tiny pond I noticed a few toads looking very much like they were in love. I ran back…
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The March of the Toads
About a week ago I was looking in the two ponds in the lower field at Pauling’s Farm in Valley Forge and noticed large black moving blobs. When I looked closer I realized the blogs were hundreds of baby tadpoles. Today, I went back and looked in the pond and saw nothing. Just a…
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Blowing Bubbles
The American Toads are at it again in the little pools at Paulings Farm in Valley Forge
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Two’s Company – Three’s a Crowd
It’s mating season in Valley Forge and the American Toads are having one heck of a time.
