What did you do to celebrate Easter?
Somewhere in the midst of our day, the kids made their way over to the small pond. From the distance, I saw Neko moving toward us with an exciting find. “I found a toad!” she cried. “With a baby on its back!”
Long story short, that was no baby.
She had found two American toads in the midst of laying and fertilizing eggs. After some coaxing, she returned them to the pond. But after a bit of patient waiting we were able to gather some toad eggs to bring home. Who knows if we’ll see them through to full toadhood. But in the meantime? We’ve got some very excited junior scientists on our hands.