It's chilly today. I know, I know, I'm from Idaho. I should be able to handle 55 degrees. More observations of the Shoreline colony have yielded some snowy egrets in with the great egrets. I don't think there are more than a half-dozen pairs of birds yet, and I haven't seen any babies. (I see them every evening when I pick up my spouse from work.) I can't be sure, but the number of birds I've seen this year seems far smaller than last year. It could still be early to see a lot of animals.
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Egrets in the trees at Shoreline.
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What I did discover was a big pond of tadpoles at CuriOdyssey. I was out visiting the roadrunners and finally noticed the frog pool was full of tadpoles. A few weeks ago a little girl asked me if there were any frogs in the pond, and I told her no. Oops. The tadpoles are now in various stages of development. Some are pretty big, but none have any signs of legs yet. I noticed them coming up to the surface of the water, and thought they might be taking gulps of air, but a keeper at CO said they're just eating the algae on the surface of the water since they're relying on gills at this point.
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Tadpoles at CuriOdyssey
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