Last Friday, Michelle made a very welcome discovery in the garden: a boreal toad.
This is the second one she’s found here. The first one appeared last August. This one is bigger than that one.
Michelle holds our new guest of honor (Photo: Mark Zeiger).
We generally engage in low-level competition around here, taking pride in being the one to spot local wildlife. That enthusiasm doesn’t seem to extend to recording these sightings in our wildlife journal however. We’re all more than happy to watch whales go by, or sea lions playing off our rocks, or moose in the yard, but no one wants to pull out the journal and write the experience down afterward. Once the show is over, someone inevitably asks someone else, “did you record the sighting in the wildlife journal?” More often than not, the answer is no.
Two of the four whales that came up the fjord, inspiring the new “rule” (Photo: Mark Zeiger).
