August 27, 2008

Today's wildlife

This morning the toadlets, all of them thumbnail sized, left their birthing ground to find new homes! (Or become a meal for another desert critter :-( ).




We have a pond, or rather a fair-sized depression that gets filled with rain runoff. Because we are in our "monsoon" season (we get the majority of the year's rainfall in these summer months), the pond has had some water in it for a number of weeks. I noticed the water teeming with tadpoles about 10 days ago, but they grew up and left home today. We saw most of them close to the pond, but some of them even made it to our driveway, about 300 feet away.

It is amazing that at the end of August we still have new life. A Canyon Towhee made a nest in the corner of my garden, among the grapevines, and I saw 2 chicks today. All fuzz and beak.


1 comment:

Dave said...

Hi Anneke, Love the blog and look forward to visiting the wonderful world of the ranch and the BC while we are immersed in the weekly grind (for about 500 more days) Dave