Wood Frogs are a brief gimpse of nature. You have to be on time.
This group had it set on the mark for MN within a day last year and I
love the sound I got with the help of these people here. I hope the
group comes through again and gives us the info for this year and
maybe they will come through for your neighborhood too. This is a
hard one to time.
Rich Peet
--- In "bbystrek <>"
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> Does anyone have any advice recording wood frogs? Last spring was
my
> first experience hearing these frogs - They have the most unusual
> voices of the ten frogs and toads that call Connecticut home. They
> are supposed to be one of the earliest breeders here in Connecticut
> as they are said to use temporary pools which dry up by early
> summer. I just started learning nature recording last spring, just
a
> little too late to catch them.
>
> Is it right that they typically only breed for a few days a year?=20
> Some of the texts I found so far seem to conflict on this point.
>
> I heard a wonderful chorus on the first evening I discovered them.=20
> Two failed attempts recording them on return visits a couple days
or
> so later seemed to suggest that were very sensitive to ground
> vibration or had better eyesight than me as they stopped calling
for
> longer than my patience and nerves could hold up (same evening a
> beaver scared the wits out of me as it began briskly chewing on a
> tree probably thirty feet away). Another theory was that on my
> second and third visits the temperature was rapidly dropping and
they
> simply did not start back up because it had grown too cold.
>
> Could wood frogs possibly have a really long cycle to their
chorus?=20
> Don't some frogs have periods of peak activity where the chorus
rises
> and falls on something like a 30 minute period? I noticed some
> obvious response to jet rumble with another species, Hyla
versicolor
> (gray tree frog), where they stop calling for a few minutes as the
> jet noise peaks. I'm pretty sure I was seeing the same thing with
> Bull Frogs. Of course disruptions, people or otherwise, don't seem
> to matter as much when the chrous is really active.
>
> Anyway, any advice would be appreciated.
>
> Brian Bystrek
>
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