4-28-07 Pond Near Kingston Mines outside Peoria, IL

Visiting my brother this weekend near Peoria so didn't get to my usual rounds of frog call surveying for the Champaign County Forest Preserve District, but he lives on a lake with ponds and wooded areas nearby. Just in the course of Saturday evening I heard a couple of cricket frogs, a couple of bull frogs, a plains leopard frog, American toads, western chorus frogs and gray tree frogs. The recording is of a gray tree frog and several American toads in the pond across the lane from my brother's house.

4-22-07 Sunset Lake, River Bend Forest Preserve, Champaign County, IL

On my survey of River Bend Forest Preserve tonight, I heard my first cricket frogs of the season. Here they are against a backdrop of American toads at Sunset Lake. I also heard a lone Western chorus frog in a woodland pool. I did not survey all of my normal sites at River Bend due to the high wind and less than ideal survey conditions.

4-15-07 Woodland Pool, Homer Lake Forest Preserve, Champaign County, IL

A chorus of Spring Peepers in a woodland pool at Homer Lake Forest Preserve, Champaign County, IL. During my survey tonight I also heard Western Chorus frogs in meadow pools near Collins Pond in a separate unit of the preserve.

4-8-07 too cold for frogs this weekend...

Didn't get out as the temperatures were unseasonably low and I don't expect there'd be much in the way of vocalizing amphibians this weekend.