We joined our home school group at a local nature centre for an evening all about Frogs! Frogs and toads happen to be one of our favorite parts of nature. We started off meeting some of the centre's frogs in residence, holding a tree frog (which we have yet to see in the wild) and learning some interesting things. Ben shared that last year I caught a huge toad in the garden, the facilitator shared with us that toads can live to be 30 years old and perhaps the reason it was so big was it's age. Wow! We were then guided through a slide show of local inhabitants and the sounds they made. Our elusive yellow bellied frog we kept catching last year at 'our' pond was a bullfrog!
The most exciting part of the evening was being in the marsh looking and catching frogs. The sound of the spring peepers was overwhelmingly loud. I have been in many a pond and heard what I thought was lots of frogs....it paled in comparison. The sound was so loud I had difficulty hearing people standing next to me, my ears were ringing even when we left!!! We were also able to hear some wood frogs, that Ben (the nature magnet) caught within two minutes of arrival! We will definitely go back- especially before the mosquitoes are out in full force. Great Night!
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