Here Today, Gone Tomorrow

For the past week of warm weather I have been watching Wood Frogs (Lithobates sylvaticus) collect in a flooded pipeline trench for the spring mating season. When I checked the trench today I found several masses of frog eggs but very few frogs. Most of the frogs had completed their mating and were heading back home to the wood. I found the following frog on the pipeline right-of-way heading for the woods.