{"id":7720,"date":"2023-06-02T03:08:50","date_gmt":"2023-06-02T03:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/?p=7720"},"modified":"2023-06-02T19:16:23","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T19:16:23","slug":"voices-of-spring-by-the-shore-and-in-the-forest-at-sandy-lake-bedford-30may2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/2023\/06\/02\/voices-of-spring-by-the-shore-and-in-the-forest-at-sandy-lake-bedford-30may2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Voices of spring by the shore and in the forest at Sandy Lake (Bedford) 30May2023"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sandy Lake & Environs on May 30,\u00a0 2023\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>
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At times, it is completely silent by the water and in the forest by Sandy Lake, but not on May 30, 2023.<\/p>\n

When I took my usual walking route by the lake and into the forest there were two prominent voices that I had learned to recognize from past walks by Sandy Lake in\u00a0 “mid- to late-spring”*.
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\n*The phases of spring: Early – April, Mid – May, Late – the first half of June, From Spring Wildflowers<\/a><\/span>
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At Sandy Lake Beach Park, there was the intense trill of male Eastern American Toads<\/a>. When I approached the marshy edge of the lake, it stopped, and didn’t start again for quite a while.<\/p>\n

Later I could hear the trill even way up on a drumlin rising up from the lake.<\/p>\n

The first time I heard the toads at Sandy Lake was on May 27, 2018, recorded below.<\/p>\n