Babies!

I have been finishing up the semester (and my first year of grad school yay!!) so I haven't updated in a while. Sorry!! Now that I am finally done I will try to update more, especially since I am finally getting my thesis figured out. I am sleepy and need to listen to fairy bluebird calls, but LOOK there's pictures of baby chukars!!! They are huge now. I need to bring my camera to get a picture of the baby argus and her mommy before she gets too big. The end.

Frogs!

This is a quick post because I need to go to bed. I am not only into parrots, but all kinds of animals, and this post will focus on my second favorite group: herps, aka reptiles and amphibians! This weekend I went on an overnight field trip with my herpetology class, and I had an awesome time. We caught a whole bunch of salamanders, frogs, toads, a tiny snake, a box turtle, and a fence lizard. But for me, the highlight was this:
Ignore my dorky expression and the head lamp I'm wearing, and look at my hand. I caught the endangered pine barrens tree frog! And what's better, I caught it within 5 minutes of the start of the search, and found it by imitating his call so that he called back. Two of my friends and I got close enough to him that I could see him and grabbed him. It was awesome. He is an absolutely gorgeous frog, I didn't know there were frogs that gorgeous in New jersey. I got an awesome shot after we all finished admiring him and put him back on a tree.

The purple markings and yellow flash coloration on his legs (that you can barely see above but is clearer below) are incredible. This was a huge, fat male. He should get lots of ladies.

I am tired, but I want to include this picture of a carpenter (?) frog and a green frog we caught because I think they look funny. Good night!