Heard one or two peepers along Squamaug Trail in the Blue Hills Reservation. Also observed mass mortality of American toad eggs and larvae in a vernal pool where the water level has dropped substantially in the past two weeks.
This past week a small group of students and I counted 450 spotted salamander egg masses in a vernal pool along the same trail. Last year, we had 501 in the same pool.
Aloha and Malama ka 'aina,
Jonathan E. Twining, Assistant Professor of Biology
Eastern Nazarene College, 23 E. Elm Avenue, Quincy, MA
Phone: 617-745-3552
Email: Jonathan.Twining@enc.edu
Web Page: www.enc.edu/environmental_science
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From: vernalpool@yahoogroups.com [vernalpool@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Alexandra Echandi [aechandiesq@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2012 7:07 PM
To: vernalpool@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [vernalpool] peepers redux
Had one in the fells today as well. Wonder if we where in the same area! :)
On Apr 5, 2012 10:06 AM, "matt burne" <mattburne@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I had a lone, but robust, peeper calling from a pool in the Middlesex Fells
> yesterday. Pool was more or less full. It is the only frog I've heard
> calling this year since March 13.
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