Greg Shchepanek

 Rideau Lakes, Ontario Northern Green Frog ( Lithobates clamitans melanota ) Foley Mountain Conservation Area, Ontario, Canada. Every year on my birthday, I go on select short trips with my best friend Roy. This year we visited the Rideau Lakes Region and stayed in Sharbot Lake for the night. During the day we visited some Conservation Areas and one Provincial Park. The first we stopped by was Mill Pond Conservation Area, where we found beautiful moist woods and probably the worst area for bugs to annoy us, mostly Deer Flies and Mosquitoes. It seemed that there was not much to photograph other than a number of Northern Green Frogs that we found here and there particularly in the streams and ponds we explored.  Northern Green Frog ( Lithobates clamitans melanota ) Mill Pond Conservation Area, Ontario, Canada. What proved to be a beautiful location was a Beaver Pond that we found on Foley Mountain Conservation Area. After enjoying a great lunch at the Westport Brewing Co, we d...

This Week was Forest Week   Northern Leopard Frogs ( Lithobates pipiens ) abound at the Marlborough Forest, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Found well out of their water habitats & in the woods. The Marlborough Forest , Ottawa's largest conservation area just southwest of the city, wasn't very fruitful in the flora & fauna department. But did provide an excellent hike around the Roger Stevens Pond in the morning this week. I would venture to the Larose Forest in the afternoon & find more divers delights amongst the tall trees of the protect woodlands just outside of Limoges, Ontario. It was so very nice to get back to the forest for I had not been there for sometime. It was even proven that I had been negligent of my visits since my companion & I got lost on our way to the big forest. But eventually we found our way there & commenced on an adventure of rediscovering the prehistoric looking woodlands just outside the city boundaries of Ottawa district. First fo...