Both peepers and American toads actively chorusing today in one vernal pool along Squamaug Path in the Blue Hills Reservation. Fresh toad eggs in a second pool along the same path, and a few peepers calling. As with everyone else, the pools I study are shrinking rapidly.
I remember back in 2007-2008, we had the same kind of warm April with drying vernal pools. That year, wood frogs were also bimodal, with many chorusing and laying eggs around May 1, which is really late for that species in New England. I have photographs of that happening.
Aloha and Malama ka 'aina,
Jonathan E. Twining, Assistant Professor of Biology
Eastern Nazarene College, 23 E. Elm Avenue, Quincy, MA
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