🐸Chorus frog season 2025

Chorus Frog Survey

It is that time of year! I like doing Citizen Science. The federal ministry, Environment and Climate Change Canada, has been running  🐸Chorus Frog Surveys for a few years now. We began participating in 2020. They are on hiatus for 5 years, and they cancelled it during COVID. Now they are back with limited surveys. I really don't know what that means. 

I have never seen a Chorus Frog, but I've heard them! They lay eggs in vernal pools, in winter melt water, ones which dry up in summer and don't have fish predators in them. (Clever, eh?)

Western Chorus Frog wiki

I programmed my sites onto the map. Then transferred it to my phone. 

This is the map that shows two different populations. The Carolinian population is not at risk. The Great Lakes population is distinct from the green shaded one. The population near us is threatened. 

They are unusual frogs, at least to me. They sound like someone running a finger across the top of a plastic comb.

Head Office, AKA the biologists, email us when they are calling in our area. Usually for two weeks in April. 

 

A few important notes about weather conditions to optimize your chances of hearing the calls for Western Chorus Frogs:

• Wait until the temperature reaches 10°C before conducting surveys
• The wind speed should not exceed 20 km/hour during survey.
• Please conduct surveys when there is no rain, or light rain only.
• Only go out to listen for them between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m.

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2025

April 2nd – It was announced that the conditions were favourable for calling. 😊

April 3rd – It was 21 C. in the afternoon, but I had an appointment. 😊

April 4th –  Too chilly.😞

April 5th – Raining. 😞

April 6th – Too cold: 5 ℃, and raining.😞

April 7th – Just 10℃. Surveyed 4 of my assigned sites. I heard Spring Peepers in the marsh at bedtime. 😊

April 8th – Cold and snowy.😞

April 9th – Went for a drive, heard them on Perth Road. Too cold here.😞

April 10  – Never made 10℃. Damp kinda cold.😞

April 11 –  Dreary day. Cold.😞

April 12 – Too cold.😞

April 14 – We took a drive. Two hours work. No frogs. Back to my quarry site, and they were in full voice.😊 

April 15 – wet and cool.😞

April 16 – High is only 4℃.😞

April 17 – sunny, visited my first 4 sites. No Chorus Frogs.

I think I am done and ready to submit my non-results!