Heather E.L.Gerquest

Yeah, Ava T-B I can. If you'd seen this when I first posted it, you would have seen that I identified it as an Eastern Yellow Jacket. At that point, I was hoping that someone might be able to verify or correct me on that ID, and thought that one who is in a hive blah, blah group might be able to help with that ID. I don't just assign my photos to random missions. I had been waiting to have the Hoverfly ID verified or corrected by the hive.... mission. Perhaps you can please point me in the right direction for a group that can actually ID bees and such that build those hives?

A type of domestic feline... I have had similar sightings around my place :) This feline is not so streamline as yours.

Maybe some sort of Mustard flower??

I wonder if he even made it through that year. Poor thing.

He is bigger than the Bullfrogs (and green frogs) I've seen out there. Yet, you're right, he does have the same color pattern as a tadpole. I wonder, is it still a tadpole? Is it supposed to be an adult? I guess we may never really know. I have never seen another creature like this out there since.

Of course it is possible that this frog is mutated, and it certainly would not surprise me if that were the case. This pond is at the bottom of an old land fill that is now covered with soil and has been a huge grassy hill for many years. There used to be a small end of the pond that had some sort of red substance in the soil that anyone with a light colored dog would dread. By all appearances, this pond, bog area looks like a healthy habitat. Beavers live in it, fish live in it, very large orange-bellied leaches live in it, and a numerous variety of frogs. I have seen many many frogs, all have appeared healthy. One was blue-green in color that I thought was a bit bizarre, but healthy looking. Frog eggs are hatched here though. Water plants of all varieties grow here from cattails to a number of water grasses, and flowers. One thing that i have found lacking here are turtles. A few years back I took photos of numerous turtles, bathing on floating logs etc. I really haven't seen that since. We saw a turtle earlier that year, but it was not by the pond. It was near another wet area near by. My dog swims there. And recently we saw a diving duck that appeared to be a bit off his migratory habitat (the ocean), and without a partner. I had never seen a diving duck in a freshwater source, and was not familiar with what kind of duck it was right off. (Except for Loons, who are kind of diving ducks, but I think even they winter in salt water.) This area is not off a side of the road, but the area's history as a landfill definitely appears guilty in this case. I still would like to discover what kind of mutated frog we are looking at.

Look like Chickens:))

I am certainly glad this spider rebuilds its web each day as one day I totally accidently broke the web. I felt horrible because I took notice of it and wanted to take a photo as soon as I took a break.

Thanks! I guess from where I was these birds did not look like starlings to me, but they did move in a group and they were talkative. The sun highlighting their markings, and the fact that they looked rather big must have confused me.

There is a non-dog version of the picture there anyway.