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I visited Mount Auburn on September 25th, sans camera, and was kicking myself so much that I returned on the 30th. They've been restocking the grounds with appropriate wildlife of the mid-19th century, and the place is overrun with frogs, each one flinging itself into the pond with a strangled "Mreep!" at my approach. ("Seen any toads?" one caretaker called to me. "We put 1500 American toads in here in May, but I haven't seen 'em.") On my first visit, I saw two wild turkeys, hundreds of puffball fungi, and a baby turtle the size of a muffin-top poking its beak up to eat algae in Willow Pond; on my second I saw an adult turtle and literally dozens of bull- and green frogs. No toads.

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