Cool Nature Photos

MossRoad · Dec 10, 2020

When I was a kid we were driving home from a visit to my grandparents' cottage on an island on Diamond Lake in Cassopolis, MI. There was a huge downpour and thunderstorm. My dad had to pull over because he couldn't see. As we sat there, we saw these small black dots hitting the windshield and before you knew it, there were hundreds of small toads about 3/8" long piled up on the stopped wiper blades crawling all over each other.

Best my dad could come up with was a tornado or strong wind scoured a small pond and dumped them on us. Pretty weird.

snymat68 · Dec 10, 2020

MossRoad said:
When I was a kid we were driving home from a visit to my grandparents' cottage on an island on Diamond Lake in Cassopolis, MI. There was a huge downpour and thunderstorm. My dad had to pull over because he couldn't see. As we sat there, we saw these small black dots hitting the windshield and before you knew it, there were hundreds of small toads about 3/8" long piled up on the stopped wiper blades crawling all over each other.

Best my dad could come up with was a tornado or strong wind scoured a small pond and dumped them on us. Pretty weird.

That's funny and creepy at the same time. Lol

goeduck said:
I got to wondering if they are legal around here. Seems to be a reference to a dB limit, but not specific.

but no horn or other warning device may emit an unreasonably loud or harsh sound or a whistle.

Yeah I use it sparingly. But it sure does get people's attention when I do!

MossRoad · Dec 10, 2020

Yeah, it was weird. But me and my siblings and parents are all science oriented and it was just another day at family college. :laughing:

cqaigy2 · Dec 10, 2020

snymat68 said:
That's funny and creepy at the same time. Lol
Yeah I use it sparingly. But it sure does get people's attention when I do!

When i was a youngster, i had a vehicle that had a hole in the exhaust system. You could make an incredibly load bang by turn ignition off, then back on, it would light up the ground underneath the truck. I thought it was so funny to let off a big bang in tunnels. I wouldn't think of doing that now days, for a number of reasons.

2LaneCruzer · Dec 10, 2020

MossRoad said:
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I SEE!

2LaneCruzer · Dec 10, 2020

cqaigy2 said:
When i was a youngster, i had a vehicle that had a hole in the exhaust system. You could make an incredibly load bang by turn ignition off, then back on, it would light up the ground underneath the truck. I thought it was so funny to let off a big bang in tunnels. I wouldn't think of doing that now days, for a number of reasons.

Yeah, I used to do that with my old 1950 Chevy. I guess the unburned gas ignites with a "bang". The last time I did that, it blew my muffler up, split wide open...and cost me money I really didn't have. Lesson learned.

kenmbz · Dec 10, 2020

MossRoad said:
We went for a walk today at a local county park, walked out on a pier and were looking around, and noticed frogs. Dozens and dozens of frogs. All sitting on the bottom in the sun. Occasionally moving around. But mostly just sitting there. In this picture, there's at least a dozen of them, and two large tadpoles. Weird for December 9th in northern Indiana!

All the frogs here have gone underground- it is strange to see them swimming, it's December right?

kenmbz · Dec 10, 2020

ArlyA said:
Our friend seen this fellow near Courtney Lake this week. Courtney is in the Ottawa NF in the UP of Michigan. We clear trails at this lake but no worry, we have packs pretty much everywhere. He's having lunch on a road kill.

Nice pose, he/she looks happy.

MossRoad · Dec 10, 2020

kenmbz said:
All the frogs here have gone underground- it is strange to see them swimming, it's December right?

Yep. In another pond about 1/4 mile away, a bog, actually, the frogs were all on the surface with their heads out of the water. Just strange to see them out with snow on the ground and 2nd week of December.

buckeyefarmer · Dec 10, 2020

snymat68 said:
I mainly got it for those that don't understand how to merge.

Which is almost every other driver except me.

Guy in front of me tonight in a small car got impatient with the semi in front of them doing 70 mph in the left lane. Car was weaving onto left shoulder flashing it’s lights at the truck. Finally it passes on the right, gets in front of the semi and hit their brakes. That semi driver had a lot of patience not knocking that SOB off the road.