Its oh so quiet Shh Shh

[Snakeknot]

ABSOLUTELY NOT FAIR! ( Take plenty of pix. Don't forget to share even the bad ones.)

Devon

[ConcinusMan]

You know what, I'd love to take plenty of pics. However, my camera is missing. I'm sure a family member moved it or has it. I'm a bit upset about that. I'll have to go without it. Leaving now.

[ConcinusMan]

you guys aren't going to believe this. i can hardly believe it myself. it only took me about 45 minutes to get out to the creek. by the time i got there, no blue was left in the sky, it dropped down to 45 degrees and a very cold wind is blowing. i just got to the computer shop where i work and the forcast calls for snow overnight down to about 100 feet elevation 30 for the low overnight. more cold and rain or snow showers tomorrow.

needless to say i found no snakes. i did enjoy the trip though. i saw bald eagles in their nest, enormous bullfrogs, lots of native ducks, a few turtles. it was nice to get out but it's just too darn cold now. too bad i didn't have my camera. grrrr!

this trip is put on hold till it warms up again. next time i will have my camera.

[guidofatherof5]

If the frogs are out the snakes won't be far behind.

[ConcinusMan]

Well bullfrogs are out but i don't think they are on the menu. chorus frogs used to be plentiful around there and there are usually temporary pools everywhere full of tadpoles up until about june but it's been so dry there are no pools and i heard no frogs.

still, even though the wetland is very dry and the creek is low, there will still be snakes when it warms up, especially ordinoides.

i was talking to a man who pointed out the bald eagle nest to me and he said he brought his grandkids out there last august and it was very dry but the kids were walking around with hands full of concinnus so i'm still holding out hope.

[guidofatherof5]

Yes, but baby bull frogs make a good garter meal.. Not to mention the tadpoles.

[ConcinusMan]

Sometimes. Bullfrogs are a little different then those little tree frogs. Tree frogs always lay their eggs in temporary pools and develop quickly. With all the permanent deep ponds around there, the bullfrog tadpoles can take up to 3 years to transform into frogs. When they take that time, they are too big when they transform.

But, bullfrog tadpoles that find themselves trapped in drying, warm pools transform early so they are small. Unfortunately for the snakes, most if not all of the bullfrog tadpoles around there are in deep ponds and are very large. Too big for garter snakes.

Most of the concinnus around there depend on those spring and early summer drying pools full of trapped fish and tree frog larvae and adults. That's just not happening this year. Still, same thing happened last year and there were still plenty of concinnus around from what I was told.

As bad as I want to see some snakes soon, it wouldn't be bad if it rained for the next month, heavily, and filled up those pools. When that happens, it's a concinnusTopia!

[drache]

some mornings the interactions with a certain short person leave me wondering how we ever arrived at this level of civilization
after all - we're just a heap of specialized cells, with one set of cells trying to tell the rest how to work together; and then that set is trying to tell another boss set of cells how to run their heap
then you throw a pair of socks into that mess and it all goes to hell in a hand basket

[guidofatherof5]

some mornings the interactions with a certain short person leave me wondering how we ever arrived at this level of civilization
after all - we're just a heap of specialized cells, with one set of cells trying to tell the rest how to work together; and then that set is trying to tell another boss set of cells how to run their heap
then you throw a pair of socks into that mess and it all goes to hell in a hand basket

Poetry Rhea, pure poetry.

[Mommy2many]

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