https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/260926153 This photo was from a few years ago in Bedford Reservation here in Northeast Ohio. This park is mostly woodland with a gorge running through it. The photo was of an immature bull frog that was one of many in some flooded tire tracks along the bridl…

Bullfrogs are really good dispersers, especially during rainy weather. I’ve found them in pretty dry situations in the US Southwest where they clearly didn’t breed but managed to find a large rain puddle or hole in the ground with water. I believe they can also estivate if caught in an area that is…

Frogs are great hitch hikers. We sometimes get frogs in our house because they jump on a person and come into the house that way. Here in Australia they often ride on cars or trucks, cane toads often spread that way.

Seems like there was some significant rain the previous day and into the early morning, followed by a sharp drop in the daytime temperature. The difference in elevation from that spot down to the gorge looks to be a drop of about 225 feet, over a distance of 650 feet from the closest point of the cr…

This is not all that unusual for any reptile or amphibian species. When I was a grad student in the Amazon I once caught a lizard that nearly always only occurs along streams in the rainforest, but in this case was a good 1/2 to 3/4 of a mile (over a kilometer) from the nearest stream. It was a smal…

I do know that snapping turtles will wander miles for new ponds. I have encountered that while hiking. It’s a dangerous thing to do with fragmented habitat. But, they are armored which can offer some protection. Amphibians are squishy and need moisture more that turtles.

It’s a mystery. There are the frogs and toads that live in the woods here: spring peepers and wood frogs. They can live in the leaf litter breeding by using the spring vernal pools. But, these bullfrogs need ponds. It was strange that there were a number of them. So, their eggs were dropped off some…

Bullfrogs are also sold my people to put in water garden/features, so they may have been intentionally placed at a nearby location.

Here are a couple of maps with the closest ponds. The one is about a 1/2 mile away (according to Google Maps measurements). The other is farther away in some housing. [pond_frog] [pond_frog_2]

Hmm… The bridle trail is used by the maintenance pick-up trucks. Maybe…somehow…the maintenance crew somehow picked up a bunch of eggs somewhere and accidentally transported them here? The crew works all over this big park, and there are spots with big ponds. On a totally different note about cane t…

Frogs in an unlikely location

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Frogs in an unlikely location

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