Short video of unusually clear pictures of the critters in the rainwater pool in providence RI greg gerritt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCp5pp9aN_E

Wi9th Providence’s North Burial Ground still restricting access for walkers (they are doing a huge number of burials and wish to keep the crew healthy) I have been unable to film the night action.

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Matt- I have been searching for fairy shrimp, but I have not seen them this year. I frequently check the pools with a small white plastic cup to look for macroinvertebrates. Perhaps there is a little

Definitely hearing them here in Metrowest! Karin

It is "Toad Day" here in Holland (MA) as well! I've had them in the beginning of March some years, and now Mid-May and everything in between. Jen Ohop

I missed the beginning of toads mating at the rainwater pool in Providence's North Burial Ground as it has been closed due to the pandemic, but it opened up for day time walks this weekend and there

Heard today singing loudly from the edge of the Quinapoxet reservoir. Anthony Costello

Checked our backyard water garden last night and found twodragonfly nymphs with the tips of their abdomens just breaking the water’ssurface as they stealthily hunted the wood frog tadpoles. Not sure

Thanks for the report, Sandy. So far behind Boston! Have you noticed any fairy shrimp?-- Matt Burne Senior Ecologist, BSC Group, Inc. Vice-President, Vernal Pool Association

On April 24, I had posted about visiting three fairly closely situated vernal pools in Bow, NH. At the time, two pools had spotted salamander eggs and the third had spermatophores (all three had wood

On Sunday I went back to a new pool in Bow NH that I had found when I heard the wood frogs chorusing earlier this spring. I was pleased to see many (60+) spotted salamander egg masses and a raft of

Here's the link to ACOE PGPs for ME and MA. These have expired and would not look the same under the new wotus rule, but provide some interesting guidance on vernal pool protection

Good to hear, Martha. Thanks. Freddie, the army corps programmatic general permit for Massachusetts, which expires in 2020 had some language to consider. The Maine PGP from 2015 (I think) had some

Hi Matt Thanks for this recap which is similar to what you thought when I first brought concerns to the group a while back. I thought this would be a reason for folks to look at their local bylaws,

Cool! Thanks! Mary -- "No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it." Albert Einstein

Besides a memory of being told, house foundations almost always have a pile of stone in the middle from the support for the chimney and are deeper.  They also are dry or at least not full of water. 

This is what I have seen in my part of central Massachusetts, too. We had a strong salamander migration into the pool I watch on March 27. (The wood frogs were migrating out at the same time, leaving

Hi Mark et al. I've always thought these deep rectangular pools in WSF were old house or other building foundations. Anybody know for sure? Mary -- "No problem can be solved from the same level

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