{"id":3145,"date":"2011-04-05T13:16:26","date_gmt":"2011-04-05T18:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/?p=3145"},"modified":"2011-04-07T16:09:38","modified_gmt":"2011-04-07T21:09:38","slug":"signs-of-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/?p=3145","title":{"rendered":"Signs of Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"

I usually mark the coming of spring with the first woodcock, the first morning cardinals and robins, the first woodland flowers, orange-throated darters and the first chorus frog chorus.<\/p>\n

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This pond dries up every year---no fish<\/p><\/div>\n

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Back in my early teaching years we would venture to a nearby pond that only held water in the early spring to collect frog eggs.\u00a0 I haven’t looked for eggs for awhile and I was a bit late, this year.\u00a0 This Sunday I did some wet wading and found some eggs in a pond that is dry most of the year.<\/p>\n

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Chorus frog eggs<\/p><\/div>\n

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Leech from wet wading<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n

Maybe it is too late for this year but for next year you could get a permit from KDWP and collect a group of eggs to raise in class.<\/p>\n

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About to hatch<\/p><\/div>\n

Here’s a great web site <\/a>from Greg and Lynnette Sievert from ESU with recordings and tons of photos of developing Kansas frogs and toads–a great resource.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I usually mark the coming of spring with the first woodcock, the first morning cardinals and robins, the first woodland flowers, orange-throated darters and the first chorus frog chorus.   Back in my early teaching years we would venture to a nearby pond that only held water in the early spring to collect frog eggs.\u00a0
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