2024 Maine Big Night # 4

 LH1-Bowd

April 11 - Start Time: 8pm.     End Time: 9:56pm

Certified Volunteers - 3 (Kathy, Paul, Laurie)

Uncertified Volunteers - 0

Starting Temperature: 43F.    Ending Temperature: 43F

Precipitation: Fog

The road is wet

Traffic Tally: 11

Species Live - 1  Pickerel Frog, 65 Spring Peepers, 1 American Toad, 10 Spotted Salamanders

Species Dead - 15 Spring Peepers

NOTES: The rain stopped at around 7:15pm, thus the road was wet. We just had fog the entire time of our survey.  This is the first night that we have heard spring peepers, and just a few were calling. The salamanders were very active as were some of the peepers. A few of the spring peepers were a bit sluggish. And, it seemed to me as though the spring peepers were a bit smaller than what we saw last year.

Our neighbor, and two of her children, came out to see our progress. Thank you to her daughter who held the flashlight while I photographed this spotted salamander. I think one of my favorite features of this amphibian is that there are spots on their legs as well as on their head and back.

And, here is the lone Pickerel Frog that we found.