Frogging photos – Spring 2012

Here are more photos from our Amphiban Monitoring Project – spring 2012. For details about this project go to our Project page

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: Two Nicola Naturalist Society members checking for frogs at a small lake near Merritt. Photo: © Lennart Sopuck.

: A NNS volunteer searches for frogs by kayak. Photo: Andrea Lawrence

: This large egg mass was produced by a single Columbia Spotted Frog. Photo: © Lennart Sopuck.

: A Long-toed Salamander caught in a dipnet. Dodds Lake, May 2012. Photo: © Lennart Sopuck.

: A Long-toed Salamander in the shallows. This is the only salamander known from the Merritt/Nicola region. Photo: © Lennart Sopuck.

: Eggs of the Long-toed Salamander, Dodds Lake – May 2012. Photo: © Lennart Sopuck.

: Nicola Naturalist Society froggers at Peter Hope Lake in May 2012. In the foreground are the large egg masses laid by several female Columbia Spotted Frogs. Photo: © Lennart Sopuck.

: Biologists from Biolinx Environmental Research and a volunteer head for the lake. Photo: © Kristiina Ovaska

: A juvenile Great Basin Spadefoot out on a wet spring night. Photo: © Kristiina Ovaska

: This is why spadefoots are called spadefoots – this hard black tubercle on the underside of each hind foot is used for digging. Spadefoots dig backwards into soft soil to avoid dry or cold conditions. Photo: © Kristiina Ovaska

: Small cattle watering holes like these can be important breeding sites for amphibians in the dry country around Merritt – this one had hundreds of Columbia Spotted Frog tadpoles. Photo: © Alan Burger.