McCann Quarter Two Honor Roll

High Honors 

Abuisi, Nicholas 2023

Ames, Ian 2023

Belisle, Camryn 2023

Booth, Collin 2023

Boyer, Molly 2023

Braman, Noah 2023

Champney, Isabella 2023

Ciempa, Erin 2023

Covello, Vincenzo 2023

DeBenedetto, Noah 2023

Durocher, Cameron 2023

Gamari, Alexis 2023

Gamari, Renae 2023

Girard, Anastasia 2023

Glasier, Emily 2023

Hartwig, Josephine 2023

Hayer, Addison 2023

Kipp, George 2023

Lake, Matthew 2023

LaSalle, Julia 2023

Lennon, Keira 2023

Liang, Ivan 2023

Livsey, Aaron 2023

Livsey, Joshua 2023

Loughman, Thomas 2023

Marsh, Catryna 2023

McGrath, Lucan 2023

McGrory, Daniel 2023

Medon, Ryan 2023

Meehan, Lillian 2023

Modena, Devon 2023

Moran, Cordelia 2023

Morin, Max 2023

Mroz, Lauren 2023

O'Neil, Katlyn 2023

Patterson Jr., Jeremy 2023

Perreault, Christian 2023

Robert, Jasmine 2023

Rousseau, Sean 2023

Shustack, Jacob 2023

Stapleton, Ethan 2023

Sumy, James 2023

Sunn, Christopher 2023

Tatro, Hannah 2023

Tatro, Macey 2023

Todd, Nathan 2023

Touponce, Jacob 2023

Tullo, Jacob 2023

Vallieres, Emma 2023

Valotta, Matthew 2023

Ward, Lily 2023

Whitman, Chloe 2023

Williams, Haley 2023

Wojcik, Brenna 2023

Arnold, Emma 2024

Astorino, Shaun 2024

Barrett, Ty 2024

Berger, Marissa 2024

Boisvert, Hannah 2024

Buda, Austin 2024

Chen, Addison 2024

Daignault, Jeffrey 2024

George, Emily 2024

Graves, Carter 2024

Harrington, Amy 2024

Haskins, Daniel 2024

Hildabrand, Gisella 2024

King, Sara 2024

Lachman, Ariel 2024

Lawson, Svea-Marie 2024

Lescarbeau-Mason, Jared 2024

Lescarbeau-Mason, Jaydon 2024

Little, Tyler 2024

Mazza III, Walter 2024

McGrory, Joshua 2024

Melito, Matthew 2024

Nicol, Ashlee 2024

Nimmons, Sarah 2024

Parkman, Michael 2024

Puntin, Eric 2024

Ranzoni, Miranda 2024

Reed, Brayden 2024

Roy, Joseph 2024

Scott, Keeghen 2024

Shafer, Athena 2024

Stoppiello, Jada 2024

Thomson, Kaitlyn 2024

Valego, Jazzmyn 2024

Vallieres, Rebecca 2024

Walden, Connor 2024

Allen, Mackenzie 2025

Bean, Lillian 2025

Boyer, Alexander 2025

Cellana, Saddie 2025

Denette, Caleb 2025

Denette, Ethan 2025

Driscoll, Logan 2025

Elias, Antonio 2025

Hayden, Brodie 2025

Hilton, Evan 2025

Hopkins, Trace 2025

Houle, Trinity 2025

Luczynski, Aolani 2025

Luczynski, Nathan 2025

McGrath, Noah 2025

Melito, Jadyn 2025

Meyette, Paige 2025

Mongeon, Meghan 2025

Moran, Camryn 2025

Nielsen, Connor 2025

Odell, Nicholas 2025

Reid, Sophie 2025

Reynolds, Brooke 2025

Rivera, Jaivin 2025

Roberts, Liam 2025

Rougeau, Devin 2025

Rylander, Lukas 2025

Sawyer, Julian 2025

Stefanik, Ava 2025

Tatro, Evan 2025

Turner, Dylan 2025

Wood, Haley 2025

Anderson, Abigail 2026

Bentley, Arthur 2026

Bills, Alisandra 2026

Bolte, Brady 2026

Boyce, Mackenzie 2026

Buck, Kolton 2026

Carrier, Julian 2026

Cellana, Rocco 2026

Champney, Aiden 2026

Connors, Thomas 2026

Crockwell, Jaslyne 2026

Davignon, Tanner 2026

Driscoll, Gabrielle 2026

Dubreuil, Tyler 2026

Ellsworth, Skyler 2026

Foucher, Hayley 2026

Gage, Stephen 2026

Gagne, Eli 2026

Gregory, Emma 2026

Hall, Ehryn 2026

Holland, Ryleigh 2026

Hubby, Kylee 2026

Jacobbe, Gianna 2026

Kaczowski, Ashley 2026

Kanelos, Noah 2026

King, Nicholas 2026

Kondel, Kamilia 2026

Kratz, Ava 2026

Lawson, Shaylee 2026

Leclair, Landon 2026

Lemaire, Jaxin 2026

Lincoln, Rhea 2026

Little, Abbey 2026

McCarthy, Ryan 2026

Miller, Jonathan 2026

Moran, Sage 2026

Parkman, Riona 2026

Peck, Boden 2026

Poirot, Liam 2026

Pratt, Derek 2026

Rathbun, Ryleigh 2026

Rondeau, Mason 2026

Rougeau, Kyle 2026

Rylander, Carson 2026

Senecal, Rider 2026

Smith, Amari 2026

Therrien, Elizabeth 2026

Tower, Jackson 2026

Ward, Nora 2026

Wesolowski, Justin 2026

Wnuk, Rachael 2026

Wohrle, Maggie 2026

Total High Honors: 174

Honors 

Belanger, Vivianna 2023

Dellaghelfa, Karissa 2023

Demers, Owen 2023

Diesz, Christopher 2023

Durocher, Madeline 2023

Gaylord, Zachary 2023

Gwozdz, Mireille 2023

Hartley, Isabella 2023

Maxwell, Samara 2023

Montoya-Alvarado, Jacob 2023

Morse, Riley 2023

Pause, Dominick 2023

Pierce, Colin 2023

Smith, Austin 2023

Thomson, Ashley 2023

Traversa, Logan 2023

Wehrle, Brianna 2023

Wnuk, Troy 2023

Cox, Braley 2024

Deeley, Jaelyn 2024

DelRatez, Abigail 2024

DeMayo, Dominic 2024

Durocher, Jonathan 2024

Hamilton, Arianna 2024

Kanelos, Courtney 2024

LaForest, Gavin 2024

Layden, Collin 2024

McAllister, Lauren 2024

Miller, Brandon 2024

Norcross, Rileigh 2024

Perras, Jaden 2024

Rand, Malia 2024

Richardson, Katherine 2024

Rozon, Noah 2024

Scholl, Tristan 2024

Shafer, Zoey 2024

Sobieski, Avianna 2024

Tassone, Troy 2024

Varcoe, Kaitlynn 2024

Wade, Shane 2024

Wehrle, Reese 2024

Whitney, Brian 2024

Biagini, Jordyn 2025

Coviello, Ace 2025

Damone, Brent 2025

Davis, Evan 2025

Dolan, Jack 2025

Hallock, Bryanna 2025

Maxwell, Cole 2025

McDermott, Alexander 2025

Mcguire, Devin 2025

Mclain, Hailei 2025

Pierce, Benjamin 2025

Politis, Ian 2025

Pringle, Braedan 2025

Puntin, Ryan 2025

Rhinemiller, Brody 2025

Sagendorph, Brady 2025

Speed, Lily 2025

Stack, John 2025

Thompson, Talan 2025

Touponce, Joshua 2025

Trombley, Jackson 2025

Turoczy, Amber 2025

Valachovic, Isabelle 2025

Booth, Nolan 2026

Bradbury, Zackary 2026

Brazeau, Tavian 2026

Burgess, Jeffrey 2026

Gaffey, Ella 2026

Goodell, Dylan 2026

Howland, Zachary 2026

Irace, Logan 2026

Kincaid, Leyla 2026

Knapp, Juliet 2026

Kondel, Nora 2026

Lane, Ashley 2026

Lane, Emerson 2026

O'Neill, Marley 2026

Smith, Jayden 2026

Tatro, Natalie 2026

Tremblay, Aidan 2026

Witto, James 2026

Total Honors: 83

Amphibious Toads Procreate in Perplexing Amplexus

By Tor HanseniBerkshires columnist
08:09PM / Sunday, May 05, 2024

 

Toads lay their eggs in the spring along the edges of waterways. Photos by Tor Hansen.

My first impressions of toads came about when my father Len Hansen rented a seaside house high on a sand dune in North Truro, Cape Cod back in 1954. 

 

With Cape Cod Bay stretching out to the west, and Twinefield so abundant in wildflowers to the east, North Truro became a naturalist's dream, where I could search for sea shells at the seashore, or chase beetles and butterflies with my trusty green butterfly net. 

 

Twinefield was a treasure trove for wildlife — a vast glacial rolling sandplain shaped by successive glaciers, its sandy soil rich in silicon, thus able to stimulate growth for a diverse biota. A place where in successive years I would expand my insect collection to fill cigar boxes with every order of insects abounding in beach plum, ox-eye daisy and milkweed. During our brief summer vacation there, we boys would exclaim in our excitement, "Oh here is another hoppy toad," one of many Fowler's toads (Bufo woodhousei fowleri ) that inhabited the moist surroundings, at home in the Ammophyla beach grass, thickets of beach plum, bayberry, and black cherry bushes. 

 

They sparkled in rich colors of green amber on beige and reddish tinted warts. Most anurans have those glistening eyes, gold on black irises so beguiling around the dark pupils. Today I reflect on a favorite analogy, the riveting eye suggests a solar eclipse in pictorial aura.

 

In the distinct toad majority in the Outer Cape, Fowler's toads turned up in the most unusual of places. When we Hansens first moved in to rent Riding Lights, we would wash the sand and salt from our feet in the outdoor shower where toads would be drinking and basking in the moisture near my feet. As dusk fades into darkness, the happy surprise would gather under the night lights where moths were fluttering about the front door and the toads would snatch bugs with outstretched tongue.

 

In later years, mother Eleanor added much needed color and variety to Grace's original garden. Our smallest and perhaps most acrobatic butterflies are the skippers, flitting and somersaulting to alight and drink heartily the nectar abounding at yellow sickle-leaved coreopsis and succulent pink live forever sedums of autumn. These hearty late bloomers signaled oases for many fall migrants including painted ladies, red admirals and of course monarchs on there odyssey to over-winter in Mexico. 

 

Our newly found next-door neighbors, the Bergmarks, added a lot to share our zeal for this undiscovered country, and while still in our teens, Billy Atwood, who today is a nuclear physicist in California, suggested we should include the Baltimore checkerspot in our survey, as he too had a keen interest in insects. Still unfamiliar to me then, in later years I would come across a thriving colony in Twinefield, that yielded a rare phenotype checkerspot (Euphydryas phaeton p. superba) that I wrote about featured in The Cape Naturalist ( Museum of Natural History, Brewster Cape Cod 1991).