
Recent Herp Activity Over the last couple weeks, we have received a flood of reports of turtles of almost every Vermont species on land, digging nests, and laying eggs. I suspect a statewide mailing from VT Fish & Wildlife encouraging…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…