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Herp Update: Current Herp Activity – August 2, 2023

Posted on August 2, 2023 by

Jim Andrews Posted in frogs, snakes, updates

Current Herp Activity Snakes We monitor the populations of snakes at a site in Lincoln that is part of the Colby Hill Ecological Project. At this site we have put out a series of 45 slate sandwiches with wooden spacers…

Tagged with: frogs, snakes

Herp Update: Special Request, Current Herp Activity – April 24, 2023

Posted on April 24, 2023 by

Jim Andrews Posted in amphibians, reptiles, updates

Special request Herpers, I have been asked to be on Vermont Public’s Vermont Edition program this Thursday at noon. It is an hour-long radio program from 12-1 that is rebroadcast at 7 PM in the evening. Jane Lindholm was the…

Tagged with: amphibian eggs, amphibians, migration, news, snakes

Herp Update: Current Herp Activity, Amphibians of Vermont Pocket Guide – April 15, 2023

Posted on April 15, 2023 by

Jim Andrews Posted in amphibians, field guide, updates

Current Herp Activity Herpers, this has been an unusual spring for amphibian migration. Here in the Lake Champlain Basin we had early migration of good numbers of Wood Frogs, and Blue-spotted, Spotted, and Four-toed Salamanders and then it dried out…

Tagged with: amphibian eggs, amphibians, migration, snakes, turtles

Herp Update: Current Herp Activity, Amphibians of Vermont Field Guide, Vernal Pool Course – March 31, 2023

Posted on March 31, 2023 by

Jim Andrews Posted in amphibians, education, field guide, snakes, updates

Current Herp Activity We have started getting reports of major amphibian migrations here in the Lake Champlain Basin. Monica and Elka Erhart visited Morgan Road here in Salisbury and reported 181 Blue-spotted Salamanders, 48 Spotted Salamanders, 17 Wood Frogs, 2…

Tagged with: amphibians, crossings, field guide, migration, snakes, vernal pools

Herp Update: Historic Snake Reports, Fundraiser – February 7, 2023

Posted on February 7, 2023 by

Jim Andrews Posted in news, snakes, turtles, updates

Current Herp Activity? I have not received any reports of Vermont reptiles and amphibians moving on the surface so far in February. This is how it should be for early February. Still we received an unusual report from New…

Tagged with: conservation, fundraiser, snakes, turtles

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: news, upcoming migration, skink, snakes — April 13, 2022

Posted on April 13, 2022 by

Jim Andrews Posted in updates

Herps in the News Herpers, on the first of our two public educational events at the Morgan Road amphibian crossing here in Salisbury, we had two VPR reporters in attendance. Their coverage went online today. It is a nice piece…

Herp Update: Education event, migration reports, call-in show — April 1, 2022

Posted on April 1, 2022 by

Jim Andrews Posted in education, event, herping, news

Morgan Road Herpers, it was a big night at Morgan Road in Salisbury last night at our public educational event. This annual event is organized by the Otter Creek Audubon Society and the Salisbury Conservation Commission. Last night we had…

Tagged with: american toad, education, frogs, migration, news, road search, salamanders, snakes

Herp Update: migration starts, vacation – March 20, 2022

Posted on March 20, 2022 by

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

Amphibian migrations have started Herpers, I just returned from a warm southerly vacation to find that temperatures in Vermont were just as warm, at least temporarily. So, I have been scrambling to get caught up. The warm weather at the…

Herp Update: Annual Fundraiser, Atlas Progress, News – November 5, 2021

Posted on November 5, 2021 by

Jim Andrews Posted in news, support, updates

Our Annual Fundraiser Begins Today! Three years ago we organized our first fundraiser. It was motivated by a decline in our regular grant funding, a pressing need to get all our data online for future use, and to assign accurate…

Tagged with: Bobbie Summers, fundraiser, gofundme, hibernation, news, records, snakes, WCAX