Re: [vernalpool] Water!

Woo hoo! Rain in Foxborough and Holliston!
Loads of spring peepers ccalling last night in "my" Holliston vernal pool.

I find it interesting that Mother Nature decided to change my vernal pool workshop plans (which will be in Foxborough tomorrow at 10:00 at the Cocasset River Park on Mill Street).

The vernal pool that I chose for my program (last winter) had been full of fairy shrimp and then wood frog tadpoles last year, but this year it is almost dry! In addition (probably because it is surrounded by various types of development), it now looks awful: very tannic, covered in an oily film, with loads of mosquito larvae, and no sign of fairy shrimp or wood frog tadpoles.

So... I'll be starting at that pool and using Mother Nature's "teaching opportunity" to ask workshop attendees: "why do you think this pool isn't doing very well in this drought?"

After briefly visiting this pool, we will move to the vernal pool I used last year (just down the road) which is surrounded by pristine forest/conservation land. Its water level, surprisingly enough, is not all that low (located at a low point in the forest, water levels are most likely fed by groundwater) and it is still in beautiful condition (clear water, high invertebrate and wood frog tadpole populations and at least 100 spotted salamander egg masses).

'Ain't Mother Nature amazing?!

For more info, please see our website at: http://www.foxboroughma.gov/Pages/FoxboroughMA_Conservation/Programs

If you would like to join us, we'd love to see you there!

~Jane

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From: Patricia Lebau <patricialebau@gmail.com>
To: vernalpool <vernalpool@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thu, Apr 12, 2012 6:40 pm
Subject: Re: [vernalpool] Water!

Nice peeper chorus in Northborough yesterday evening in two areas. Sounded
so nice. Hail in Natick today! Pat

On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 2:54 PM, Janet DeLonga <jdelonga@yahoo.com> wrote:

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> Norfolk had hail/snow/ rain shower; I had to put my wipers on : )
> rain followed me home to Holbrook
> the grass already looks greener
> My rain chain was beautiful with flowing water......
> Amen.
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> From: SOPHIE ZYLA <sophiezyla@snet.net>
> To: vernalpool@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2012 2:42 PM
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> I'm up for the mob rain dance! Beacon Falls had a light sprinkle this
> afternoon and that has been it. The shorelines are receding and things are
> beginning to look like mud rather than water in many spots.
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> --- On Thu, 4/12/12, Alexandra Echandi <aechandiesq@gmail.com> wrote:
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> From: Alexandra Echandi <aechandiesq@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [vernalpool] Water!
> To: vernalpool@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Thursday, April 12, 2012, 1:16 PM
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> we had hail in the blue hills!!! lasted for about 10 minutes, sad- we need
> more! anyone up for a flash mob /rain dance?!
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Pat Lebau
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