Blue-spot eggs also in Westborough and Newbury, MA during the past two days. Overall, egg-mass counts of spotted salamanders appear to be low in comparison to numbers of individuals (mostly males) captured in traps. I'm hoping this means there are still a bunch of females in the woods holding out for rain -- perhaps there will be another decent breeding event to come for those who may have missed this first wave...
Jake Kubel
--- In vernalpool@yahoogroups.com, Alexandra Echandi <aechandiesq@...> wrote:
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> I missed them too- hundreds of egg masses in the Blue Hills... also a new
> marbled record! :)
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> On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 2:18 PM, matt burne <mattburne@...> wrote:
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> > Looks like I missed spring in the Sudbury, MA area - 500+ WF egg masses and
> > scores of both yellow and blue-spot eggs in a pool I checked this
> > afternoon. Many of the masses were fresh, maybe within the past couple of
> > days, but I still haven't heard a WF chorus. Guess I need to go north to
> > get my spring fix!
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> > Matt
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