Wood frog (rana sylvatica) eggs in my pond!

[leanne]

These are photos I got a chance to take by borrowing a friend's camera today. I live in east TN and the wood frogs came out last week to mate and lay eggs---LOTS of eggs, as you shall see.....

This is just one mass of eggs among many

Closeup of a single cluster

A cluster of almost-hatched tadpoles

Can't leave my Fatboy tiger out!

(Message edited by tadpole on March 03, 2004)

 

[TJ]

Nice pics! I wonder how frogs and newts compete/coexist with each other in a pond like that, both adults and larvae. I suppose they prey on each other to some extent -- adults on larvae, larvae on larvae...

 

[leanne]

Tim, and to make things even more interesting, there are notophthalmus viridescens (red-spotted newts) in there too---I tried to take some photos of them also but they didn't come out too well. On top of that, there are all kinds of bullfrog, treefrog, toad tadpoles in there during the spring as well! AND a giant snapping turtle lives at the bottom of this pond, so he has plenty to snack on....