Interesting find at the farm today. This looks like a red-legged frog egg mass, but it's way too early, months early, for them to be breeding here. I have it on good authority that it's either that or a weirdly large mass of an earlier breeder like chorus frog. Any frog folks have a better guess? (Coast range of Oregon, taken today, Dec. 28) Either way, I'll be keeping a closer eye on the pond over the next few weeks.
#frogs #amphibians #oregon #pnw #nature #mastopond
BTW, I am now determined to make #mastopond a thing. If you have any pictures or posts about a body of water smaller than a lake, but bigger than a puddle, do join in.
@ianrosewrites Do streams count? (our back yard last winter)
@bobkoure It's not a pond, but that's a pretty fantastic backyard.
@ianrosewrites We had beavers for a couple of months. Some idiot in town made it his mission to destroy the dam. We finally got him to go away, but the beavers had relocated downstream at that point. I never got a decent photo of them. Sigh...
@ianrosewrites do let us know what it turns out to be. It's been a strange strange year.