The Continuing Story of the Mount Auburn Toad Project
If you weren’t aware, there has been an ongoing project over the past three years of releasing American Toad tadpoles in the Dell Pond with the hope that, following metamorphosis, some of them will survive to adulthood and begin breeding … Continue reading
Counting the Toads to Success
In 2011, citizen-scientist Joe Martinez (New England Wildlife Center’s outreach educator) and Watertown Conservation Commission member Patrick Fairbairn, proposed a translocation of American toads, gray treefrogs, and spring peepers to Mount Auburn Cemetery grounds. Joe released over 4,000 tadpoles (Toads for Mount … Continue reading
Toads for Mount Auburn
Mount Auburn Cemetery is renowned as both the first garden cemetery to be established in the United States (consecrated in 1831) and as a birding hotspot (this past Spring a pair of nesting great horned owls with their two fledglings … Continue reading