Backyard and Beyond

Starting out from Brooklyn, an amateur naturalist explores our world.

As John Burroughs said, “The place to observe nature is where you are.”

Frog Saturation

frogsA single frog can lay 20,000 eggs.img_9708The low murk of the Dell Water was full of hundreds, if not thousands, of frogs on a recent visit.img_9710Boy, are they jumpy! They know you’re coming before you know they’re there. Until you can’t ignore all the plops taking to the water. It was a little H.P. Lovecraftian, if you know what I mean.frogs1So what are these? Bullfrogs? No dorsal ridge…

2 responses to “Frog Saturation”

  1. Were these in Green-wood? Interesting, because the bricks say DPBW, aka Dennings Point Brick Works, a famous old brickyard in Beacon, NY.

    1. These were in Green-Wood. Thanks for this information.

      As you undoubtably know, so this for other readers, NYC was built by bricks from up the Hudson.

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