road ecology is the saddest science

[Frederick W. Schueler]

...especially when you can't do any mitigation, and you're familiar with
individual creatures from off-road studies.

This morning, after 3 mm of 04h00 rain, there were 2 shredded juvenile
Leopard Frogs, and one shredded juvenile Green Frog at the south end of
my doing-the-streets transect, and it seem likely these were among those
that were using our little 2 m pond as a water refuge during the
drought, and were just off on a last fatal foraging venture.

The only other DOR Anuran was a medium-size Bull Frog crushed on Main
Street - there haven't been any Bull Frogs at the pond, but you can
stand by for an account of yesterday's walk up to auditory Station 2,
and the slaughter of Bull Frogs seen along the way.

fred.
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Fragile Inheritance Natural History - https://fragileinheritance.ca/
6 St-Lawrence Street Bishops Mills, RR#2 Oxford Station, Ontario K0G 1T0
on the Smiths Falls Limestone Plain 44.87156° N 75.70095° W
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