In May I went to the Vernal Pond and I saw some bullfrog egg clutches and spring peepers. I took a clutch home to see if they would turn into frogs. One of the eggs hatched and then another and then lots. My whole aquarium was full with tadpoles. Soon some of them grew back legs and then front legs and then they shrunk their tails. Soon they became frogs and could breath air.
When I was at the Vernal Pond, I saw a snake eating an egg clutch. It opened it's jaws and swallowed the egg clutch and pushed it down in one gulp. After that we saw some salamander eggs in the pond. I knew they were salamander eggs because they in pairs of two and frog eggs are in a big round clutch.
We looked up in the trees and saw two nests. I climbed the tree and noticed that there was two eggs in the nest. The eggs were blue and I think they were robin's eggs.
On the ground we saw footprints that looked like a fox's footprints. And my friend looked it up in a track book and that's how we knew it belonged to a fox.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Hi Julian! I was one of your dad's students at Columbia and I met you at a barbecue in May at one of our classmates' house. I thought your bug sucker was really cool and your dad told me about your blog. Before I went to architecture school, I was a kindergarten teacher and in my class we had two tadpoles, but neither of them ever turned into frogs. We could not figure out what was wrong, but thought maybe there was something wrong with the aquarium. How many tadpoles did you have in your tank? Do have any advice about growing tadpoles? Thanks!
ReplyDeleteBrett Dorfman