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<\/a><\/p>\nYou’ve got your leopard frog and your bullfrog. Our little pond off the front porch is a breeding ground for frogs.<\/p>\n
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KING OF THE DITCH<\/h3>\n
A very large bullfrog is the lord of his domain beside the Moncure Pittsboro road.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Breeding season is upon us.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The pond becomes a sea of frog’s eggs. By mid-June, the big frogs moved on, leaving tadpoles behind to dine on mosquito larvae and turn into tiny frogs who will eventually repeat the cycle.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n We’ve got both.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A pair of black vultures have a conversation on the driveway across the street. Bob turns in his back porch chair to find, behind his head, a spider intercepting an ant.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n This cycle of life begins with courtship, which leads to a nest, then eggs, furious feeding, and fledglings.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Both parents work all day to source protein for their babies.<\/p>\n The female sits on the wire above the road before flying into the nest with her worm.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n After an interminable courtship, rife with pursuit, posturing, and dewlap displays, our male antagonist caught himself a female on the post beside the hummingbird feeder.<\/p>\n And he made sure to hang on until all was said and done.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n With our new camera we are able to catch the hummers in flight.<\/p>\n Proof they do occasionally extend landing gear.<\/p>\n From spiders to bunnies, our world is teeming with fancy animals – May, 2020 <\/p>\n <\/p>\n TWO KINDS OF FROGS <\/p>\n \n You’ve got your leopard frog and your bullfrog. Our little pond off the front porch is a breeding ground for frogs.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n KING OF THE DITCH <\/p>\n \n A […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14026,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sub-story","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13957"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14098,"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13957\/revisions\/14098"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\nPAIRING UP<\/h3>\n
<\/a>\u00a0 <\/a><\/p>\nEGGS<\/h3>\n
<\/a>\u00a0 <\/a><\/p>\nTORTOISE AND HARE<\/h3>\n
<\/a> \u00a0<\/a><\/p>\nSCAVENGERS AND PREDATORS<\/h3>\n
<\/a>\u00a0 <\/a><\/p>\nBLUEBIRDS<\/h3>\n
<\/a>\u00a0 <\/a><\/p>\nTHE HUNT<\/h3>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> \u00a0<\/a><\/p>\nGOTCHA!<\/h3>\n
<\/a>\u00a0 <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>\u00a0 <\/a><\/p>\nRUBY THROATED<\/h3>\n
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[Troutsfarm]<\/a> * [May, 2020]<\/a> * [Good Eating]<\/a> * [Jordan Lake]<\/a> * [Nature Freaks]<\/a> * [Around the Yard]<\/a> * [Caroline and Heyward]<\/a><\/h4>\n
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