Peepers are out

[cynthiafu]

Walked out this morning  and the peepers were singing in the pond behind the house 

[Nytracker]

I half expected to hear them this morning as warm as it was . Everything here is still iced up except about a foot of shore ice .. creeks are ripping... trout should start moving into the tribs .

[ncountry]

16 hours ago, cynthiafu said:

Walked out this morning  and the peepers were singing in the pond behind the house 

Yikes ! That's early.. no peepers for another month or 2 here.

I cannot wait though.

 

[cynthiafu]

16 hours ago, ncountry said:

Yikes ! That's early.. no peepers for another month or 2 here.

I cannot wait though.

 

They going to freeze today and tomorrow 

[Nytracker]

Just had a small flock of Redwing black birds in the back yard . Pretty early .

[Merlot]

I saw peeps at Tops today...does this count??

[Nytracker]

Large flocks of snow geese flying north this afternoon. 

[Kmartinson]

On 2/25/2022 at 5:44 PM, blackbeltbill said:

Let's hope some emerging Deer Ticks were exposed and killed off last night + today.

Exposed to what? How are they killed?

[Versatile_Hunter]

3 minutes ago, Kmartinson said:

Exposed to what? How are they killed?

He thinks that the cold will kill them rather than cue them to revert to a dormant state. I don't know if this is true.

[Kmartinson]

48 minutes ago, Versatile_Hunter said:

He thinks that the cold will kill them rather than cue them to revert to a dormant state. I don't know if this is true.

I thought  they were pretty tough to kill but they need certain climate to breed? Not sure either

[Versatile_Hunter]

24 minutes ago, Kmartinson said:

I thought  they were pretty tough to kill but they need certain climate to breed? Not sure either

Hopefully @blackbeltbill can tell us how this works…

[DirtTime]

What in the hell do ticks have to do with peepers?

Anyways, to answer the question, I believe for ticks to actually die there has to be a long cold snap of a couple weeks with temps below 10*. Deer ticks become dormant when temps get below 35* but don't die in those temps, and can become active again pretty quick once the temps get warmer. Snow on the ground can make them less active, but I've had them on me with snow on the ground before. Dog ticks and lone star ticks become dormant when the temps dip below 45* but don't die. At least that's what I remember reading about 8  years ago when I ended up with two of them dug in inside of a year and did a little reading up.

 

Those are the three most prominent ticks we have in NYS.

 

[Nytracker]

Heard alot of geese  going north at 5 am . Had the dogs out and a constant stream of birds . Sounded like all Canadians. 45 minutes later still geese flying over .