[NatureNS] recent amphibian sightings -- was green frog & peeper reports

Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:09:11 -0400
From: "James W. Wolford" <jimwolford@eastlink.ca>
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THANKS, JOHN! from Jim and naturalists

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> From: John Gilhen <GILHENJA@gov.ns.ca>
> Date: November 30, 2009 11:37:02 AM AST
> To: "James W. Wolford" <jimwolford@eastlink.ca>
> Subject: Re: green frog & peeper reports
>
> Hi Jim;
> I have been out looking for active amphibians with Dr. Ron Russell  
> on the nights of 25, 26, 27, 28, and 29 November 2009. We saw 1  
> Blue-spotted Salamander (25th), Yellow-spotted Salamanders (26, 27  
> and 28th),1 Four-toed Salamander (25th), Eastern Red-backed  
> Salamanders (25, 26, 27 and 28th), 1 Northern Spring Peeper (25th),  
> and Green Frogs (25, 26, 27, and 28th).
> We looked at Route # 212 (Airport to Elderbank) on 25, 26, and 27th  
> Nov and I checked highway between Route # 325 and Laconia,  
> Lunenburg County,on 28th Nov. No amphibians on 29th November 2009.  
> Thanks for forwarding those observations posted on naturens.
> John
>
>
>>>> "James W. Wolford" <jimwolford@eastlink.ca> 11/30/2009 11:10 AM >>>
>
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
>> From: aljoudrey@eastlink.ca
>> Date: November 29, 2009 9:34:37 PM AST
>> To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca
>> Subject: Re: [NatureNS] frog
>> Reply-To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca
>>
>> I heard one lone peeper Friday night. If he could speak English I'm
>> sure he was saying " Helllllllllooooooooouuuuu?"
>>
>> Angela in Windsor
>>
>>
>> When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to
>> the rest of the world.
>> John Muir
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: bdigout@seaside.ns.ca
>> Date: Sunday, November 29, 2009 8:52 pm
>> Subject: [NatureNS] frog
>> To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca
>>
>>
>>>     While walking the edge of a brook yesterday in Oban, Rich. Co.
>>> looking
>>> for a crossing spot, there was a large Green frog sitting on the
>>> bank.
>>>  I picked it up and it didn't struggle, but moved quite
>>> lethargically.
>>>   I released it back into the brook and it swam quite easily to the
>>> undercut bank.  Would it have been washed up by the heavy flow or  
>>> was
>>> it probably resting?  Should they be hibernating by now?   Any
>>> thoughts?
>>> Billy
>>>
>
>


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THANKS, JOHN! from Jim and naturalists<br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded =
message:</div><br class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote =
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#000000"><b>From: </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" =
style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">John Gilhen &lt;<a =
href=3D"mailto:GILHENJA@gov.ns.ca">GILHENJA@gov.ns.ca</a>&gt;</font></div>=
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style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: =
</b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px =
Helvetica">November 30, 2009 11:37:02 AM AST</font></div><div =
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face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">"James W. =
Wolford" &lt;<a =
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t></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: =
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#000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" =
style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Re: green frog &amp; peeper =
reports</b></font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: =
0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; =
"><br></div> <div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; =
margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Hi Jim;</div><div =
style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; =
margin-left: 0px; ">I have been out looking for active amphibians with =
Dr. Ron Russell on the nights of 25, 26, 27, 28, and 29 November 2009. =
We saw 1 Blue-spotted Salamander (25th), Yellow-spotted Salamanders (26, =
27 and 28th),1 Four-toed Salamander (25th), Eastern Red-backed =
Salamanders (25, 26, 27 and 28th), 1 Northern Spring Peeper (25th), and =
Green Frogs (25, 26, 27, and 28th).<span =
class=3D"Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></div><div =
style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; =
margin-left: 0px; ">We looked at Route # 212 (Airport to Elderbank) on =
25, 26, and 27th Nov and I checked highway between Route # 325 and =
Laconia, Lunenburg County,on 28th Nov. No amphibians on 29th November =
2009. Thanks for forwarding those observations posted on =
naturens.</div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; =
margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">John</div><div =
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type=3D"cite"><blockquote type=3D"cite"><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; =
margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">"James W. =
Wolford" &lt;<a =
href=3D"mailto:jimwolford@eastlink.ca">jimwolford@eastlink.ca</a>&gt; =
11/30/2009 11:10 AM &gt;&gt;&gt;</div> =
</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; =
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14px; "><br></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; =
margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div =
style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; =
margin-left: 0px; ">Begin forwarded message:</div><div =
style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; =
margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> <blockquote =
type=3D"cite"><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; =
margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">From: <a =
href=3D"mailto:aljoudrey@eastlink.ca">aljoudrey@eastlink.ca</a><span =
class=3D"Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></div><div =
style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; =
margin-left: 0px; ">Date: November 29, 2009 9:34:37 PM AST</div><div =
style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; =
margin-left: 0px; ">To: <a =
href=3D"mailto:naturens@chebucto.ns.ca">naturens@chebucto.ns.ca</a><span =
class=3D"Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></div><div =
style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; =
margin-left: 0px; ">Subject: Re: [NatureNS] frog</div><div =
style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; =
margin-left: 0px; ">Reply-To: <a =
href=3D"mailto:naturens@chebucto.ns.ca">naturens@chebucto.ns.ca</a><span =
class=3D"Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></div><div =
style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; =
margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style=3D"margin-top: =
0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I heard =
one lone peeper Friday night. If he could speak English I'm <span =
class=3D"Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></div><div =
style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; =
margin-left: 0px; ">sure he was saying " =
Helllllllllooooooooouuuuu?"</div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; =
margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: =
14px; "><br></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; =
margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Angela in Windsor</div><div =
style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; =
margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style=3D"margin-top: =
0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; =
min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; =
margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">When one tugs =
at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to <span =
class=3D"Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></div><div =
style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; =
margin-left: 0px; ">the rest of the world.</div><div style=3D"margin-top: =
0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">John =
Muir</div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; =
margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div =
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margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">----- =
Original Message -----</div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: =
0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">From: <a =
href=3D"mailto:bdigout@seaside.ns.ca">bdigout@seaside.ns.ca</a><span =
class=3D"Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></div><div =
style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; =
margin-left: 0px; ">Date: Sunday, November 29, 2009 8:52 pm</div><div =
style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; =
margin-left: 0px; ">Subject: [NatureNS] frog</div><div =
style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; =
margin-left: 0px; ">To: <a =
href=3D"mailto:naturens@chebucto.ns.ca">naturens@chebucto.ns.ca</a><span =
class=3D"Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></div><div =
style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; =
margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style=3D"margin-top: =
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min-height: 14px; "><br></div> <blockquote type=3D"cite"><div =
style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; =
margin-left: 0px; "><span class=3D"Apple-converted-space">&nbsp; &nbsp; =
</span>While walking the edge of a brook yesterday in Oban, Rich. Co. =
<span class=3D"Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></div><div =
style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; =
margin-left: 0px; ">looking</div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; =
margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">for a =
crossing spot, there was a large Green frog sitting on the <span =
class=3D"Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></div><div =
style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; =
margin-left: 0px; ">bank.</div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; =
margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span =
class=3D"Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>I picked it up and it =
didn't struggle, but moved quite <span =
class=3D"Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></div><div =
style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; =
margin-left: 0px; ">lethargically.</div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; =
margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span =
class=3D"Apple-converted-space">&nbsp; </span>I released it back into =
the brook and it swam quite easily to the</div><div style=3D"margin-top: =
0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">undercut =
bank.<span class=3D"Apple-converted-space">&nbsp; </span>Would it have =
been washed up by the heavy flow or was</div><div style=3D"margin-top: =
0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">it =
probably resting?<span class=3D"Apple-converted-space">&nbsp; =
</span>Should they be hibernating by now? <span =
class=3D"Apple-converted-space">&nbsp; </span>Any</div><div =
style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; =
margin-left: 0px; ">thoughts?</div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; =
margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; =
">Billy</div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; =
margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> =
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