Wednesday, May 13, 2009

toads and other photo-worthy subjects

Here's a stack of pictures from the last week or so of fieldwork.

Four wheelers! This is certainly an exciting addition to fieldwork. I got paid to ride this around looking for toads. What a life!

Spring has finally come to Utah, and it's really pretty.

Playing with snakes. What's new? (Thamnophis elegans)

Great Basin Spadefoot toads.

Scenery shot. Heber Valley, Utah. My "office" for the last three weeks.

It's Boreal Toad breeding time. Notice the egg strands. Very cool.

I don't think this fellow is going to be breeding this year. Found in a pond, somehow still alive despite the pink thing being its lung. Probably was attacked by a bird.

Toad eggs

herons in tree

Working hard, well... they are... I'm obviously not if I'm taking pictures.

3 comments:

Philip Kahn said...

That toad really does convince one that mammals are total pansies. We can't have a lung sticking outside of us like that ...

Totally awesome photos.

Unknown said...

i really like that photo of the spadefoots. Herp eyes are awesome and we miss out on that at the mvz.
-pascal

alexwe said...

Great pictures, looks like you really like this job.