Last night (Sunday), I realized that the sound I had been listening to outside my house since the afternoon was a calling Wood Frog. Our lake is great for deafening choruses of frogs (American Toads and both treefrogs) in early June. But, this was the first time I had ever heard a Wood Frog at the house. My experience has been that Wood Frogs have always been the most difficult calling frogs to find, because they seem to call for the shortest period. But, if they were calling here, this warm evening might be the best time to go out and run frog and toad survey route.
So, at 10 pm I left home and headed down to Frontenac where my route is. I was not disappointed. It was one of the best nights on the route that I have experienced. Not only did every one of the ten stops have frogs, but seven of the ten stops had Wood Frogs, which is five more than the most I have found over the last twelve years or so that I have run the route. In addition, I found Chorus Frogs at most stops and Spring Peepers and Northern Leopard Frogs at the stops where they usually are found. In addition, I had both Virginia and Sora rails at Lake Frontenac. Besides a Great Horned Owl, they were the only night birds. Steve Weston On Quigley Lake in Eagan, MN [email protected] ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
