Standing waist-deep in a vernal pool at midnight, I don’t know which is colder, the 40-degree late March air, or the frigid water. My rubber chest waders keep me dry, but don’t provide much protection ...

Spring has arrived and with it will bring our smallest native frog, the spring peeper (Pseudacris crucifer). For me, this is the true harbinger of spring. Found in swamps, ponds and wetlands near ...

Eager children clad in rain boots and warm jackets carried nets, buckets and flashlights on their quest to find frogs earlier this week in Mount Airy’s Windy Ridge Park. Their parents accompanied them ...

For some, robins are the first sign of spring. But the changing of the seasons may be more accurately forecast by songs from a wet forest floor. On a warm night, wander near any fresh water and you’ll ...

Woodland phlox are blooming, robins are nest building, thermometers are fluctuating and spring peepers are singing their chorus in marshy woods, swamps, ponds and ditches. These tiny tree frogs ...

Among the many sounds of spring are the chorus frogs – the “spring peepers”. In the evening…I sometimes walk out to the end of the driveway to check out the moon, the stars and listen to the sounds of ...

A camouflaged spring peeper clings to the stem of a plant as its vocal sac slightly protrudes from its neck. Listen for the calls of spring peepers this week as these harbingers of spring emerge and ...

Yesterday (3/4 – Monday) was the first day I heard the “spring peepers” or chorus frogs. They are among the first sounds of spring. In the evening…I sometimes walk out to the end of the driveway to ...

Last evening (April 4), at about 10 p.m., I poked my head outside and, noting that it wasn't raining, walked out on out deck that eventually overlooks The GEAA Golf Course on Crane Avenue in ...

The experience of springtime in childhood is uniquely special because the world itself is new to us—the march of time has only begun to unwrap for us the mysteries of the four seasons and the nuances ...