MAINE SUNDAY TELEGRAM • March 20, 2022
One of the most anticipated events in March for naturalists is the amphibian migration known as “big night.” With each warm evening we think we get closer to the main event, and though sometimes a big night turns out to be a little one, when the big night happens it is an event not to be missed. The big night typically happens on the first warm and rainy night of the spring (45 degrees or warmer) when the majority of amphibians – frogs and salamanders – emerge from the burrows where they overwintered and journey back to the vernal pools they were born in, to breed. ~ Maine Audubon Staff Naturalist Doug Hitchcox