Category Archives: Frogs

Toad song

Click below to hear… …the sweet trill of amorous American toads (Anaxyrus americanus). Half a dozen males have been chorusing in the small pond at our house for the last week or so. For a warty ol’ amphibian, they sure … Continue reading

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Dick Cove

My Field Investigations in Biology class ventured into the old growth forest in Dick Cove (aka Thumping Dick Hollow, apparently named for a former inhabitant who built an ingenious corn-pounding device). In addition to measuring trees to quantify how the … Continue reading

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Treefrogs in amplexus

The heavy rains have brought amorous Cope’s gray tree frogs to the garden. It seems that embracing pairs of tree frogs are everywhere. A previous post describes their eggs and calls. This morning there were about fifty small rafts of … Continue reading

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Cope’s Gray Tree Frogs

Despite the lack of rain, the tree frogs have been calling every night from our small pond. The croak calls are the tree frogs; the sweeter trill is an American toad. In the morning, about a dozen small clutches of … Continue reading

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