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Travlin' Timmie Tadpole, reporting for duty.
When you live in as wet a climate as the Pacific Northwest,
it's only natural you should have at least one tadpole living with
you! Special thanks to my Timmie enabler, Rach! :)
"Speak to me of lovely things, of treasures yet to be found, of peace that flows like a river. Tell me of tranquil places that no hand has marred, no storm has scarred. Give me visions of standing in the sunlight, or feeling the mist against my check as I move and live and breathe. Show me paths that wind through wild lilies and beds of yellow primroses. Sing me songs of the spheres, the mingled voices of wrens and meadowlarks, the lowing of gentle cows, the soft motherly chuckle of the mare talking to her colt.
Lead me past the glass-smooth pond where frogs croak of their coming-out party, their graduation from frisky tadpoles to squat green frogs that wait patiently for the flying insect. Find me a place in the sun to sit and think and listen to the sweet inner voice that says so quietly, 'Peace. Be still'."
[Joyce Sequichie Hifler]
These are the "cracked eggs" in the Bisti wilderness, but to me they look like giant tadpoles.
They seemed to have emerged from the ground (which they did) and now they're hungry for your toes. They're coming to get ya.
While on my walk this morning I stopped to watch this juvenile green heron that was busy catching tadpoles in the canal. A short distance away an adult greenie was only able to catch minnows. This youngster seems to have mastered the art of tadpole catching. The poor tadpole put up a good fight but lost in the end. I really didn't need any more green heron photos, but they may be leaving us soon for their winter home I took about twenty more for my collection. Wildwood Park, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
Several years ago, I discovered a bizarre and fascinating species of tadpole on my North Carolina property.
While most tadpoles grow to half an inch and then transform into tiny frogs within several months, these mysterious creatures grow to several inches in length over a period of three years, hibernating during winter beneath the substrate of their aquatic habitat.
But size isn’t the strangest quality of these other-worldly beings. Many develop facial characteristics similar to humans, including what appears to be a beard, though obviously not comprised of hair. Every face is totally unique.
The tadpole in this photo is over four inches long and the largest I ever observed. This summer it will probably morph into what’s called an “American bullfrog” and absent misfortune, live for nearly a decade.
I noticed this pattern on our boat window at the end of a windy, choppy-water trip. The white stuff is salt spray, and the "tadpoles" are areas where the splashes hadn't dried yet. The background colors are the shoreline at low tide - greenish water at the base, different colored layers of algae-covered stone, gray bare stone (above the tideline), and finally the green & brown forest at the top. This shot is color boosted and cropped square in iPhoto, but no other editing or textures added.
An aquatic passerine bird found across Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and parts of North Africa. It's easily identified by the dark brown plumage sharply contrasted by a bright white throat and breast.
These birds are unique for their ability to dive and swim underwater, using their wings to propel themselves. They typically inhabit clear, fast-flowing rivers and streams in cold environments, where they forage for aquatic insects and larvae, small fish, and even tadpoles.
Dippers require clean, oxygenated water for their prey to thrive. Their nests are large, spherical structures of moss, often located near or above the water, in crevices, under bridges, or behind waterfalls. We found a nest maybe a few inches above the flowing water. There were 3 chicks inside that both the adults were continually feeding.
The weather was overcast and slightly drizzling - making for terrible light though.
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Green Herons have a lot of character. They have elastic necks, a crown that they can raise on their head and are often comical to me. I got a kick out of this one charging out over the water for a tadpole and then hightailing it back with its prize. (Butorides virescens) (Sony a1ii, 400mm, f/2.8, 1/6400 second, ISO 640)
Hooded Merganser hen on a brief break between feeding dives, Suamico, Wisconsin USA
the main course was many big fat tadpoles with a small side of crawfish
Green Tree Frog. I often find these hanging on door screens or ground level windows. They are so sweet and harmless. Fast though!
When the tadpoles jam up close together at the warmest end of the pond, I reckon they look a bit like blackcurrant jam. The reflections are from the plastic mesh which we have placed over the pond to prevent cats, crows, etc. fishing.
Hooded Merganser hen with a fat tadpole, Suamico, Wisconsin USA
I'm not sure how a petite little bird like this can do it, but I saw her eat 6 or 8 of these creatures along with a crayfish or two in less than an hour. She needs her energy for nesting, I guess. Very tough to catch an image of her like this one, not knowing where she will pop up from each dive and with the tadpoles she would tend to swallow them very soon after she broke the surface. The tadpoles go down pretty easy, as opposed to the crayfish which she will thrash around until the pinchers fly off, only then down the gullet.
The floating blind (flic.kr/p/2mhVMF4) is amazing for moving and adjusting position a bit for each dive.
If you look closely, this tadpole had begun to sprout legs, but there was nowhere to run.
The infusion of fresh new water in the pond thanks to hurricane Ida has really done a lot to clear up the water. So much so that these little in-between tadpoles were clearly visible under water. Hope everyone is enjoying their labor day weekend! (in the USA that is) Otherwise... enjoy the weekend anyway! LOL
I posted a pied-billed grebe nabbing a bullfrog pollywog/tadpole a while ago. This time, it was a green heron, lurking in the grass, and downing another young bullfrog.
This River Otter is obviously enjoying his breakfast of fresh tadpole. What a privilege it was to watch this Otter as closely as I did. I will share more over the next few days. It is fun to watch these water clowns at play but as cute and cuddly as they look, they are wild and have been known to attack humans if you get too close. Those canines look like they could do some serious damage.
The Tadpoles Nebula is located about 10000 light years away from earth in the Auriga constellation. Gear: 1527900mm Achro, ASI1600mmPro & Baader narrowband filters. Exposure about 14 hours.
The 19th of December 2023 clear skies over Stockholm. The Tadpole nebula in the Hubble palette. about 10 hours of data in SHO Lovely blue clouds of burning oxygen. WO Magrez90 ASI294MM.
I like the way that the shoaling tadpoles cause ripples on the water surface that break up the conservatory roof reflections rather like a Joan Miro painting.
Technical card
Imaging telescope or lens: Officina Stellare Veloce RH 200
Imaging camera: FLI MicroLine 8300 CCD-camera FLI
Mount: Paramount-ME
Guiding telescope or lens: Borg 77 ED
Software: Pixinsight 1.8
Filters: Ha 5nm, OIII 5nm, SII 5nm
Accessories: FLI Atlas, Starlight Xpress lodestar 2
Resolution: 3065x2352
Dates: Dec. 4, 2016, Dec. 5, 2016
Frames:
Ha 5nm: 31x600" bin 1x1
OIII 5nm: 36x600" bin 1x1
SII 5nm: 35x600" bin 1x1
Integration: 17.0 hours
Locations: FOVO - Field of View Observatory, Home, Worcestershire, United Kingdom
Here we have a look at IC410 and its famous tadpoles. Spent some time on this trying to realise some of the colours in the central area rather than it just showing as a solid blue area. Quite a few iterations needed to get it to have colour (rather than just a grey feature!) but happy with the results so far.
IC 410 is c.12000 light years from earth with each tadpole an astonishing c.10ly in size.