Hi Molly, Your frog eggs look like spotted salamander eggs. Wood frog egg masses have many small cells of eggs. Peepers do not lay their eggs in masses on branches. Spotted salamandes lay their larger 1/2 inch eggs in countable masses along branches within vernal pools. These salamanders are larger (about the size of a pinky finger) and are dependant upon vernal pools and undisturbed woodlands around them for their survival. Where I grew up in Ogunquit, we used to have lots of spring peepers, now there are none. I cherish the sounds of spring- especially after a long winter.
They could be salamander eggs since we have those as well as frogs. I assumed they were frogs since I’ve been seeing so many around. We have a small human-made pond that is a mecca for frogs. The last few days the frogs have been making so much noise that it sounds almost as though there is a flock of Canada geese in our woods. Yesterday I went down to the pond and counted 11 green frogs just floating around on the surface of the pond.
Sometimes in the summer we have to close our windows if we want to watch television because the frogs make such a racket.
It’s funny we never get peepers right by our house but hear them in the wetlands that are near the road on the way to our house.
Setting up bee hives on Old Fields Rd, I saw an oriole on Friday. They are traditionally here on Mother’s Day along with the bobolinks. Today’s wind has everyone ducking for cover.
…frog eggs!
Hi Molly, Your frog eggs look like spotted salamander eggs. Wood frog egg masses have many small cells of eggs. Peepers do not lay their eggs in masses on branches. Spotted salamandes lay their larger 1/2 inch eggs in countable masses along branches within vernal pools. These salamanders are larger (about the size of a pinky finger) and are dependant upon vernal pools and undisturbed woodlands around them for their survival. Where I grew up in Ogunquit, we used to have lots of spring peepers, now there are none. I cherish the sounds of spring- especially after a long winter.
They could be salamander eggs since we have those as well as frogs. I assumed they were frogs since I’ve been seeing so many around. We have a small human-made pond that is a mecca for frogs. The last few days the frogs have been making so much noise that it sounds almost as though there is a flock of Canada geese in our woods. Yesterday I went down to the pond and counted 11 green frogs just floating around on the surface of the pond.
Sometimes in the summer we have to close our windows if we want to watch television because the frogs make such a racket.
It’s funny we never get peepers right by our house but hear them in the wetlands that are near the road on the way to our house.
Has anyone seen any Baltimore Orioles yet this year?
Setting up bee hives on Old Fields Rd, I saw an oriole on Friday. They are traditionally here on Mother’s Day along with the bobolinks. Today’s wind has everyone ducking for cover.