05/24/14, 04:55 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: northcentral MN
Posts: 14,336
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Today on the ponds
Today I spent some time exploring the ponds of my old fish farm. I was looking for tadpoles and thought I had found one but it looked strange. I caught it several times in my cupped hands but it always left with the water until I was finally able to hold it in my hands.
It turned out to be a tiger salamander larvae. I could tell by the external gills.
The common toads are singing non-stop and I found lots of their single strand eggs full of black embryos.
If I had the money to keep an attorney on retainer to fight the inevitable illegal attack by the DNR I would consider raising fish again. It's pretty interesting to watch all the things that the ponds produce.
There's two broods of Canada geese too.
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