Tuesday, May 31, 2011

May 28th! All Out Toad ORGY in Windsor Mass!

Get your wah-wah guitars out and play along to these horny devils! We've got a nasty, X-rated, adults only post this time!!
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It all began innocently enough... we went to the Mass Sheep and Wool Fest in Cummington... oh... I see. Yes. There was some foreshadowing there...

We had planned on going to the Windsor State Forest after, like we had done a few times in the past. We had seen many herps there before... Garters, Efts, and always plenty of toads. We'd even planned on camping there one year, just to get some extra herping in, but it fell through. Being 3 hours away from home, this is always a special trip.

I'd said one the way "I hope nobody else is there"! I got my wish. It seems the campground and parking area had fallen victim to budget cuts last year and the place was abandoned. Oh well... we parked across the street and snuck in, unsure if we were really trespassing or not, but assuming we weren't.

We decided to herp quickly, just in case. I moved to a couple of palettes that were lying near some bushes and flipped the top one...3 Red Efts were under it!!
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It was a warm day and they got pretty cantankerous pretty fast!
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So, already we were happy!

While photographing the Efts, a Wood Frog jumped by... I caught him to photograph...
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Andrea somehow saw and caught a teeny Spring Peeper!
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We saw an American Toad, who acted like he was missing out on something... I wonder what it was?!
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Most of the Redbacks we saw were quick in the warm weather, but these guys stayed still long enough for a pic...
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(A lovely coppery guy!)

Down closer to the river (the Westfield River), I found a toad that was buzzing in my hand like a cell phone on vibrate! The sound that we'd heard and wondered what it was seemed to be toads!
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Andrea said... "look! Frog Porn!" She was photographing a couple in amplexus! We were very excited to be able to photograph this amazing event!
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I got nearer the water and saw another couple... and another!! There were dozens and dozens of toads doin' it! There were guys aggressively forcing their way into threesomes and foursomes! Legs and warts were flailing everywhere!! Let's just sit back and enjoy some pornography, shall we?
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(Wrapped up in strings of toad eggs!)
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(A four-stack!)
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DSCN1262("What about me?")
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Eggs galore!

*Whew*... I need a cigarette!

While Andrea was pervertedly photographing the toad porn, I moved down a bit (there were still copulating toads, but less after a waterfall), I flipped an underwater rock and found this Two-Lined Salamander larvae...
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Then I found another Eft. 6 efts in a day??? Unheard of!
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We decided to look around the abandoned campground before we took off and were rewarded with a lovely Two-Lined Salamander!
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No reptiles, but 7 different kinds of amphibians! Boy Howdy, that was a good trip!

5 comments:

  1. Wow.That was well pretty awesome and sexy?

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