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Herp Update: Recent Herp Activity – August 27, 2024

Posted on August 27, 2024 by

Jim Andrews Posted in amphibians, frogs, salamander, snakes, updates

a small green frog perches on a yellow flower with a black center

Recent Herp Activity Isolated Reports This week Ethan Bodin sent us the first ever report and photo of a Blue-spotted Salamander (or related hybrid) from Chittenden. Blue-spotteds are fairly common in the Lake Champlain Basin 1000 ft. lower and two…

Herp Update: Toad Tadpoles, Female Turtles Nesting, Needed Reports – May 30, 2024

Posted on May 30, 2024 by

Jim Andrews Posted in amphibians, frogs, turtles, updates

Recent Herp Activity We have received the first report of American Toad tadpoles hatched out and on the move. Kate Kelly reported them in Hinesburg. At the same time, there are still some American Toads calling and laying eggs.…

Herp Update: American Toads & Gray Treefrogs – May 22, 2024

Posted on May 22, 2024 by

Jim Andrews Posted in amphibians, frogs, news, snakes, updates

Recent Herp Activity We have been receiving a flood of reports lately. I suspect it has to do with the amount of recent press coverage we have had. We have been on local television, VPR, and Vermont Digger this spring…

Herp Update: Activity, Get Data, Radio — April 22, 2024

Posted on April 22, 2024 by

Jim Andrews Posted in amphibians, event, herping, snakes, updates

Recent Herp Activity In much of Vermont, the warm and wet weather during the week of April 8-12 generated the bulk of our early-spring-amphibian migration. However, the warm, and dry weather over the past week has generated reports of Common…

Herp Update: Morgan Road education and amphibian migration — April 13, 2024

Posted on April 13, 2024 by

Jim Andrews Posted in amphibians, frogs, herping, migration, road search, salamander, updates

Folks, each spring the Otter Creek Audubon Society (OSAS) and the Salisbury Conservation Commission host two public educational events on Morgan Road in Salisbury, to introduce people to the wonderful phenomenon of amphibian spring migration. This year our first public…

Herp Update: Kickstarter for Field Guide, Fall migration activity—November 15, 2022

Posted on November 15, 2022 by

Jim Andrews Posted in conservation, education, herping, road search, updates

Kickstarter campaign for the first ever Field Guide to Vermont’s Amphibians Teage O’ Conner of Crow’s Path contacted us this spring asking for our collaboration in putting together a waterproof, tearproof, foldable, and super handy field guide to the amphibians…

Herp Update: Northeast Kingdom; Mink Frogs, Gray Treefrogs — June 28, 2022

Posted on June 30, 2022 by

Jim Andrews Posted in updates

Herps in the Northeast Kingdom (NEK) My assistant Matt Gorton and I recently took a trip to the Northeast Kingdom (NEK) to try to fill in some distribution gaps in Avery’s Gore and Averill. As of the 2020 census, Avery’s…

Herp Update: reports of turtles, frogs — June 13, 2022

Posted on June 13, 2022 by

Jim Andrews Posted in updates

Current Herp Activity Herpers, I continue to receive a steady stream of reports of Snapping Turtles, Painted Turtles, and even a couple Northern Map Turtles laying eggs. I also am receiving quite a few reports of Wood Turtles traveling on land, but since they feed on land,…

Fall Frog Calls

Posted on October 4, 2021 by

Jim Andrews Posted in frogs, herping

Regarding late summer and early fall amphibian calls: Gray Treefrogs will call from trees on warm humid afternoons in late summer and sometimes early fall. Their fall call is the same as their spring call, but once again, it is…

Herp Update: Aug 7 – spring salamanders, spiny softshells, and a green frog video

Posted on August 7, 2021 by

Jim Andrews Posted in updates

Spring Salamanders We have recently spent two days in Sharon trying to find Spring Salamanders in that town. Although we updated records for a variety of other species, we were unable to find any Spring Salamanders. Spring Salamanders are one…