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Thanks Bill. It's been very dry the past few weeks, and warm. I'd be willing to bet that the next time a good rain comes through, as long as the temps don't drop, that you'll be able to get a good idea if there really is less activity now than in years past. Best of luck! Mark

Nice! Bill, in reference to our conversation about the strength of some of the frog choruses recently, what would you say about your observation? Was it as strong as you remember from the original recordings that we referenced?

Love these guys. They, along with PBTF's and green tree frogs, might be my favorite frog in NJ.

...if you can be dropped off anywhere within the Pine Barrens and not be lost, find water, food and shelter on your way home, and be back home within 24 hours to choke the sumbitch that left you in the woods, you're probably a Piney.

I'm foreseeing a thread about a naked swimmer sighting at the Parker Preserve

Thanks Smokejumper!

Hi Folks, I wanted to ask if I could request some help from the members here. The help that I am requesting is regarding the timing of the breeding patterns in a few Pine Barrens frog species. The thread by Whippoorbill that has recently resurfaced has gotten me interested. Can anyone share...

I've said many times that I wish that I could stick a flash drive in the ear of Al, Gibby, Teegate or Jerseyman and download their brains.

Range of tolerance for carpenter frogs and Pine Barrens tree frogs (lower pH limit) is a pH of 3.8. I think that if the pH goes low enough to start killing the carpenter frogs and PBTF's, it would decimate the more widespread species first. I could be wrong.

Great video! Those are definitely chorus frogs, but I couldn't make out whether that was a wood frog, a leopard frog or a carpenter frog in the background.

In retrospect I think that I came off as a bit of an alarmist in my first post, and I didn't mean to do so. My comments were generalized to amphibian threats worldwide, not necessarily in the Pine Barrens. As far as chytrid fungus, I have no idea if this could be the culprit. IF the numbers are...

Snapped a picture of this little guy on Thursday night, here in Mercer County. It started raining so I had to put the camera away, I'm planning on getting some better pics this week.

I'd like to check out that location on an unusually warm or humid night in the later part of April. I think that's when the carpenters and leopard frogs peak in their breeding activity. Can anyone confirm or refute this? I have spent more time up here listening to frog calls in our area, and not...

I've been doing a lot of reading recently about worldwide amphibian declines. It seems that these guys are facing a multitude of natural and man-made threats. Among the natural threats are ranavirus and the widespread chytrid fungus, as well as another, emerging strain of chytrid. I recently...

Last time I saw socks like that, they were on Julius Erving

It was a nice time, Terry, thanks for the invite!

No sir, I have not yet had the pleasure of photographing these snakes in the wild. One day I would love to.

Hey Al, No on the copperhead pic. The milk snake was a juvenile Eastern milk snake. I've read that coastals range near us, but I don't believe so.

Al, good on you for crossing the cottonmouth safely. Lots of people would have hit him on purpose. As far as queen snakes, there have been no records of queen snakes here since 1977. They are currently considered extirpated as far as I know. If someone found a queen snake in New Jersey, it would...