5-18-08 Riverbend Forest Preserve, Champaign County, IL



The picture is of the meadow pool-- a temporary pool that's stuck around quite well this year due to the heavy rains-- same reason the "Shallows" are not as shallow as normal.  Tonight's monitoring turned up a lone bullfrog calling from the Shallows where I would have expected much more activity. In contrast, the flooded meadow was alive with a deafening din of cricket frogs, fowler's toads and a couple of  plains leopard frogs.  I had also heard American toads apparently calling from the meadow as I was coming down the trail, but not while monitoring. The recording is of the meadow-- same place as the recording from April 5 less than two weeks before, but entirely different sounds. Check them out and compare!