2024 Maine Big Night # 5

 LH1-Bowd

April 12 - Start time: 8pm.     End Time: 9:06pm

Certified Volunteers - 3 (Kathy, Paul, Laurie)

Uncertified Volunteers - 0

Starting Temperature: 50F.      Ending Temperature:  48F

Precipitation: Fog

The road is wet.

Traffic Tally: 14

Species Live: 18 Pickerel Frogs, 37 Spring Peepers, 1 Green Frog, 6 Spotted Salamanders, 2 Red Efts

Species Dead: 2 Spring Peepers

Species Injured: 1 Eastern Newt

NOTES: With all the rain we had overnight into this morning, we figure that there was lots of amphibian movement. The spring peepers were much more in abundance in the pond than there were last night.

Here is a photo of the injured Eastern Newt. Note that its length spans one hand. It got run over by a car.

Here is a closer view of the Eastern Newt showing the red circles surrounded by black halos on its back.

And, an important characteristic in identifying salamanders is to look to see if they have any patterning on their belly. The Eastern Newt has a yellow belly with black spots.

Here is a photo of a spring peeper from tonight. You can sort of see the X marking on its back.