2023 Maine Big Night #1

Maine Big Night is citizen science at its most fun! I am part of a group who is doing amphibian migration monitoring (of frogs and salamanders). Who doesn't like rescuing amphibians, to help them cross roads to get to the other side, so they can reach water for breeding? If you haven't tried it, now is the time!

Before you decide to go out on your own, you must register, do a bit of online training, pass an amphibian knowledge quiz, be savvy of road safety, and sign a safety form. The link is in the bolded first three words of the paragraph above!

We enter data and submit it each night we go out. What are you waiting for? Click the link above and start having some springtime fun while helping to conserve wildlife!

DATA ENTRY for April 6, 2023

Our information tally for tonight was: 

Certified Volunteers: 3 (Laurie,Kathy,Paul)

Volunteers: Start time 9:30pm / Volunteers End time 10:35 for 2 and 11:15 for 1.

Starting Temperature: 42F    Ending Temperature: 43F

Precipitation: Light drizzle from 9:30pm-10:00pm   The road is wet.

Traffic Tally:  11 cars

Species Live: 16 Spring Peepers   

Species Dead:  1 Wood Frog, 3 Spring Peepers

Species Injured: None

And, here are me and my buddy, Kathy, in our gear as we search for salamanders and frogs. We have another principal volunteer for the site, Caroline, who was not able to be with us tonight.

Our new volunteer at this site is Paul, who lives next door to the tiny pond we are working at. I didn't get a photo of him, but he was the Pied Piper of Peepers as he found all of the live peepers who were hoppity hopping in the neighborhood of his driveway which was within our survey zone!