Clark Wright CA - Tree buds, violets, and mosquito larva

I went back to Clark Wright to check in on the frogs.  They have all stopped calling.  I looked for egg masses in the vernal breeding area (which was mostly dry).  I found some American Toad eggs around the edges of the pond, but no signs of eggs on the grass where the majority of wood frog and peeper breeding took place.  Instead a dried up stickleback and millions of mosquito larva were all the remained in the laast remaining puddles of the vernal wetland.

American Toad eggs

mosquito larva

stickleback in dried up amphibian breeding area

parched breeding pools

 With nothing too interesting going on with regard to amphibians, I moved on to investigating how thing are progressing in the plant world.....

spicebush

violet

violet

elm seeds

Lots of bird activity, but still getting use to the zoom on my camera.  Finding it very hard to find the bird on the display screen.