arrival of juvenile Leopard Frogs

[Frederick W. Schueler]

Everyone,

In 2020 I averaged the date of arrival of juvenile Leopard Frogs in
Bishops Mills, and found that our traditional date of 1 August was the
mean of arrivals -
http://www.doingnaturalhistory.com/2020/04/arrival-of-juvenile-leopard-frogs.html

The earliest arrival was 20 July 2011.

And now:

23 July 2023 - a dry skin on Co Road 18 at Pipers House
24 July 2023 - ca50mm SVL brown juvenile on the roadside across from
Pipers House.

So we have an early arrival. The previous years since the summary in
2020 were 9 Aug 2021 and 25 July 2022.

fred.
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[Fred Schueler]

Everyone,

the arrival verse in the Leopard Frog song is -

Let us live here in Bishops Mills
On the first of every August
When the metamorphs from the South Branch marsh
Come and fill the fields and the gardens.

- and in 2024's sodden summer the arrival was on this traditional &
calculated date.

In this year's drought the first juveniles showed up on 4 August, and
since then there have been a few regularly seen in our little backyard
pool and not-there on the days after the traces we've had of rain. Very
few have been on the streets, and it's nice to recognize individual
frogs in the pool, rather than scraping scraps off the pavement. They
have yet to "fill the fields and the gardens," so we're just waiting for
the drought to break, and perhaps release hordes from the margins of the
creek.

fred.
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On 7/25/2023 12:08 AM, Frederick W. Schueler wrote:

> In 2020 I averaged the date of arrival of juvenile Leopard Frogs in
> Bishops Mills, and found that our traditional date of 1 August was the
> mean of arrivals -
> http://www.doingnaturalhistory.com/2020/04/arrival-of-juvenile-leopard-frogs.html
>
> The earliest arrival was 20 July 2011.
>
> And now:
>
> 23 July 2023 - a dry skin on Co Road 18 at Pipers House
> 24 July 2023 - ca50mm SVL brown juvenile on the roadside across from
> Pipers House.
>
> So we have an early arrival. The previous years since the summary in
> 2020 were 9 Aug 2021 and 25 July 2022.

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Frederick W. Schueler & Aleta Karstad
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6 St-Lawrence Street Bishops Mills, RR#2 Oxford Station, Ontario K0G 1T0
on the Smiths Falls Limestone Plain 44.87156° N 75.70095° W

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