TYDSITC -Tadpoles!

On the way to church this morning we took a different road. A country road. A one way road. Under power lines. The main highway that we normally travel is being resurfaced so sometimes there are delays.
Ds2 asked me to stop right at the beginning of the power lines, right at this canal. He said he wanted to take some pictures. He stepped out and told me there were a ton of tiny little creatures swimming around in the ditch.
It turns out they were tadpoles. Every little black spot you see below are tadpoles swimming around. Click on any image to see a much larger photo.

Here you can see some baby... toads? Frogs? We usually don't have frogs because the desert doesn't have much water, so we usually have toads. But these were green tinted, more like frogs than toads.

Here is a tadpole with backlegs.

I managed to catch one of the tiny little things.

Here it is in the bottom of a styrofoam cup. That's a sunflower seed shell next to it. Heee!! It's so tiny!


I tossed the little thing back into the water and it swam away.

Here are some more lounging on the beach.


Until next time.