Monday, May 7 2007- Kansas City, KS
I spent the first few hours wading through the mud and muck of a flooded field trying to catch some Great Plains Toads and Plains Spadefoots. I got plenty of the GP's, but no spadefoots. I also found a shell of a painted turtle. Then I visited a concrete "pitfall" and found 3 plains leo frogs, and a baby RES.



After it got dark, I waded into another wetland and found numerous Leo frogs, woodhousii, americanus, northern crickets, and Gray Treefrogs. I also heard a lot of Boreal Chorus Frogs, but I didnt see any. Dragging a net around, I scooped up some larval sallies, and hundreds of various types of tadpoles.

Great Plains Toad 15
Gray Treefrog 12
Woodhouse's Toad 13
American Toad 6
Plains Leopard Frog 19
Cricket Frog 27


Larval Salamander 9

Painted turtle 1 (shell)
Slider 1

By distribution, these are either smallmouth or eastern tigers.





These sallies have cleaned out my daphnia/ostracod tank, and now Im netting mosquito larvae for them. They seem to eat anything.

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-Dan
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Great pics and apparently great hunting!
I can't say I've ever heard of plains leopard geckos.
What are they?

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Merlin,
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My thoughts exatly..... cool pics though.

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Ken
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I'm with them^^ What's a plains leopard geckos? We want pics! LOL

Maybe it's a leopard frog, little typo after all the caffeine and adrenaline of feild work.

Nice shoots and finds, glad someones getting dirty this year.

testing

LEO
Leopard Geckos
leo
Leopard Geckos

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-Dan
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The Sallies are cute

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MARSHA

:D I'm smiling because I have no idea whats going on!

If you would read the rest of the post, you would see
Plains Leopard Frog 19

The only geckos we have in Kansas are introduced Mediterranean Geckos, so I have no need to reference Leopard Geckos, because when I want to see herps, I dont go to a pet store.

Apparently this forum is broken and automatically converts "L"E"O"S" to Leopard Geckos.

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-Dan
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I think they were referring to the first paragraph in your post

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MARSHA

:D I'm smiling because I have no idea whats going on!

Hello,

It isn't broken. lol I have it setup that way. It changes several abbreviations into the commonly translated phrase or word. Sorry about that, I am the culprit. lol

It also converts links into their full page title instead of showing the link. This is all for Search Engine Optimization purposes.

By the way, sounds like you had a great day and the pics are cool! I have never seen those before.

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Thats one of the reasons I rarely visit this forum anymore. It has become so "new user" friendly, that it confuses us old pros. Navigation for me consists of clicking on every tab to try and guess where the specific forums are. It took me about 5 tries to find the field herping forum. Congrats on setting yourselves apart from the standard forum, which is great if this is the only forum you visit, but its pretty awkward for those of us who have a preconception of what a forum layout should be.

But it is a very pretty forum with nice graphics.

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