Frog Wood Frogs are brown or tan-coloured. Some females in red sandstone areas may become red coloured. Egg masses Wood Frog tadpole Wood Frogs and Spring Peepers are the first amphibians to emerge in spring. The males, which usually far outnumber the females, congregate on the surface in vegetated areas of ponds. The call is a hoarse racket like a number of ducks quacking in a distant pond.
Males are vocal all night long, if temperatures are above freezing.
At night, you may see pairs of frogs in amplexus, with the smaller male gripping the female tightly behind her forearms. Breeding is over by May in most regions. Females lay fist-sized jelly masses of about 1000 eggs. The tadpoles develop rapidly and transform during July and August. Except for breeding, Wood Frogs live in damp deciduous or mixed woods.