future frogs --EXPLORED
this past Friday, Chloe and I decided to take a drive over to the nearby Churchville Nature Center.
They have a delightful little fenced in garden, full of native wildflowers, and several little ponds
. Chloe and I were excited about the prospect of finding some frogs, and maybe a turtle or two sitting by the ponds.
There are usually plenty of them there.
But alas....when we pulled into the parking lot there were 6 school buses.
That meant there were schools having a field trip and there was going to be plenty of activity. The normally serene garden, was buzzing with action and noise.
As a result there was not a frog or turtle to be found,.
The funniest moment of all though, was when Chloe and I overheard a couple of kids complaining about not seeing anything.
I whispered to Chloe, "That's because they don't know the secret." (I'm always telling her the secret to seeing any wildlife is that you have be very quiet so you don't scare them away....sometimes now when we walk out back looking for the deer, and I say something to her, she'll shush me, and tell ME we have to be quiet!)
As we walked by the group of kids, Chloe stopped and said, "You can't see anything because you don't know the secret!"
The one kid took the bait and asked, "What's the secret?"
Chloe promptly replied. "You have to be quiet!, and walked away!
I had to chuckle.
We did manage to spot a couple of tadpoles. Chloe was really intrigued by the fact that these "fish" were going to grow arms and legs and then be able to walk out of the water, and in the end, when they were all done growing up they would be frogs.
LOL.....I'm not quite sure she believed me.
future frogs --EXPLORED
this past Friday, Chloe and I decided to take a drive over to the nearby Churchville Nature Center.
They have a delightful little fenced in garden, full of native wildflowers, and several little ponds
. Chloe and I were excited about the prospect of finding some frogs, and maybe a turtle or two sitting by the ponds.
There are usually plenty of them there.
But alas....when we pulled into the parking lot there were 6 school buses.
That meant there were schools having a field trip and there was going to be plenty of activity. The normally serene garden, was buzzing with action and noise.
As a result there was not a frog or turtle to be found,.
The funniest moment of all though, was when Chloe and I overheard a couple of kids complaining about not seeing anything.
I whispered to Chloe, "That's because they don't know the secret." (I'm always telling her the secret to seeing any wildlife is that you have be very quiet so you don't scare them away....sometimes now when we walk out back looking for the deer, and I say something to her, she'll shush me, and tell ME we have to be quiet!)
As we walked by the group of kids, Chloe stopped and said, "You can't see anything because you don't know the secret!"
The one kid took the bait and asked, "What's the secret?"
Chloe promptly replied. "You have to be quiet!, and walked away!
I had to chuckle.
We did manage to spot a couple of tadpoles. Chloe was really intrigued by the fact that these "fish" were going to grow arms and legs and then be able to walk out of the water, and in the end, when they were all done growing up they would be frogs.
LOL.....I'm not quite sure she believed me.