Posted in Bird, Insect, Library, Mammal, tagged book, frogs, nature, night, opossum, woods on July 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
(I was thinking about Inspector Clouseau, with the bumpf on his head…)
I came across an interesting book the other day: Central Park in the Dark: More Mysteries of Urban Wildlife by Marie Winn.
You should check it out as it’s chock full of interesting nature/science stuff. Plus, the author has an awesome blog: http://www.mariewinn.com/marieblog/
I miss going [...]
Posted in Amphibians, Insect, Library, tagged amphibian, bugs, children's books, endangered, frogs, gopher frog, Insect, Mo Willems, toys on March 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I happened to look at the Yahoo article on the endangered Mississippi gopher frog… and then did some more searching and found this interesting article from the Georgia area Nature Conservancy.
Check out what a gopher frog sounds like here. Hmmm…are we sure they didn’t just tape my husband sleeping? ;-p
Best of all: they glow!
“Before they [...]
