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Herp Update: Night Activity, Habitats+Highways Award, Kickstarter continues — November 29, 2022

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

Recent Herp Activity Last Sunday, November 27th, with the temperature at 41 F and a steady rain since mid-afternoon, I headed out around 9 PM to check to see what amphibians had been encouraged to move at our Morgan Road…

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Herp Update: Map turtle mystery; fall frog calls; bullfrog gape — September 2, 2022

Posted on by Jim Andrews Posted in frogs, turtles, updates

Herpers, it has been too long since I sent out an update. Here in the office we have been really busy keeping up with the records that are being sent in by others (~375 during July and August) and those…

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Northern Leopard Frog-pocalypse? No, but…

Posted on by Jim Andrews Posted in frogs, road search, updates

Over the past week I have received many e-mails, phone calls, and reports of huge numbers of small frogs along the Otter Creek floodplains of Cornwall, Leicester, and Salisbury. Landowners report not wanting to mow their lawns; pool owners have…

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to Herpers: snakes and frogs overwintering indoors, human population

Posted on by Jim Andrews Posted in conservation

Herpers, I have been receiving recent reports of snakes and a couple frogs overwintering in people’s houses.  Over the weekend I heard of a Northern Leopard Frog overwintering in a cellar sump pump depression filled with water (a first) and…

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