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10pt; --Apple-Mail-23--177502269 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; delsp=yes; format=flowed Thanks, John. Green frogs lay their eggs in flat surface films in =20 mid-summer, much much later than now, and they won't start calling =20 (glunk, glunk, like banjo string plucked). Bull frogs with their =20 "jug-a-rum" calls are even later and they lay their eggs in flat =20 rafts like those of green frogs. Eggs of American toads (our only =20 toads) are laid in long intertwining strings of eggs in jelly. Both =20 toads and wood frogs and yellow-spotted salamanders aggregate their =20 egg masses in the same parts of ponds or ditches as their other same-=20 species compatriots. Cheers from Jim in Wolfville. On 16-Apr-12, at 6:05 PM, John and Nhung wrote: > Hmm.. fist-sized or smaller. Green frogs are quite common in the =20 > pond. Woods? Possible. They are here, but we don=92t see them =20 > often. Lots of peepers, and have yet to see any young-of-year =20 > tadpoles. Also have yet to hear Mr. Toad trilling! > > From: naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca [mailto:naturens-=20 > owner@chebucto.ns.ca] On Behalf Of James W. Wolford > Sent: April-16-12 4:56 PM > To: NatureNS; John Gilhen; Fred Scott > Subject: [NatureNS] re frog eggs & tadpoles, Yarmouth and =20 > Cumberland Counties > > John, Are your frog eggs in fist-sized clumps of jelly? If so, =20 > very probably belong to wood frogs, or possibly leopard frogs (less =20= > likely because a bit later in expectations, and nobody has reported =20= > their snore-like calls yet, vs. the chuckling calls of wood frogs =20 > -- and spring peeper eggs are generally not visible since they are =20 > laid singly or in tiny groups of a few eggs. > > As for tadpoles, any overwintered ones (of green or mink or bull =20 > frogs) would be quite large, and any tiny blackish tadpoles should =20 > be this year's hatchlings (prob. wood frogs this early, but perhaps =20= > peepers or leopard frogs or even early toad tadpoles? > > Cheers from Jim in Wolfville. > > Begin forwarded message: > > > From: John and Nhung <nhungjohn@eastlink.ca> > Date: April 16, 2012 6:16:04 AM ADT > To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca > Subject: RE: [NatureNS] Cumberland county - frogs > Reply-To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca > > Our pond on the Wyman road, near Yarmouth, has had frog eggs =20 > visible for about a week, and the overwintered tadpoles are out. > > From: naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca [mailto:naturens-=20 > owner@chebucto.ns.ca] On Behalf Of Mary Macaulay > Sent: April-15-12 9:06 PM > To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca > Subject: [NatureNS] Cumberland county - frogs > > Wood frogs - huge gathering of cluckers in my fen Saturday night. =20 > Peepers just gearing up as well - same area. Saw one tiny black =20 > tadpole in my pond - not sure what. No eggs in there yet so must =20 > have been something that over wintered. > > Angevine Lake, Cumberland county > --Apple-Mail-23--177502269 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=WINDOWS-1252 <html><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; = -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "> Thanks, John. Green frogs lay their eggs in flat surface films in = mid-summer, much much later than now, and they won't start calling = (glunk, glunk, like banjo string plucked). Bull frogs with their = "jug-a-rum" calls are even later and they lay their eggs in flat rafts = like those of green frogs. Eggs of American toads (our only toads) = are laid in long intertwining strings of eggs in jelly. Both toads = and wood frogs and yellow-spotted salamanders aggregate their egg masses = in the same parts of ponds or ditches as their other same-species = compatriots. Cheers from Jim in = Wolfville.<div> <br><div><div>On 16-Apr-12, at 6:05 PM, John and = Nhung wrote:</div><br class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote = type=3D"cite"><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"border-collapse: = separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: = normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: = normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: = 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: = 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; = -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; = -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: = auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div = class=3D"WordSection1" style=3D"page: WordSection1; "><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; = margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', = serif; "><span style=3D"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, = sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Hmm.. fist-sized or = smaller. Green frogs are quite common in the pond. = Woods? Possible. They are here, but we don=92t see them = often. Lots of peepers, and have yet to see any young-of-year = tadpoles. Also have yet to hear Mr. Toad = trilling!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0cm; = margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: = 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style=3D"font-size: = 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); = "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div><div style=3D"border-right-style: = none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: = initial; border-color: initial; border-top-style: solid; = border-top-color: rgb(181, 196, 223); border-top-width: 1pt; = padding-top: 3pt; padding-right: 0cm; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: = 0cm; "><div style=3D"margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: = 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New = Roman', serif; "><b><span lang=3D"EN-US" style=3D"font-size: 10pt; = font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; ">From:</span></b><span lang=3D"EN-US" = style=3D"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; "><span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span>naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca= [<a = href=3D"mailto:naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca">mailto:naturens-owner@chebuc= to.ns.ca</a>]<span class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>On = Behalf Of<span class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>James W. = Wolford<br><b>Sent:</b><span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span>April-16-12 4:56 = PM<br><b>To:</b><span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space">