Turkey Tracks: Spring Peepers

Turkey Tracks:  April 16, 2011

Spring Peepers

There are still a few patches of snow here and there, but the grass is greening up and bulbs are sprouting.   This past week, a clear herald of spring came:  the peepers started singing.

Peepers are tiny, tiny frogs with big, big voices.   They seem to live in wet lands, and we have one down the hill from us.  A little cold snap has silenced them for the past few days, but they’re stirring now.  I brought on the cold snap since I switched out my winter clothes for spring summer ones.  Unlike the peepers, I cannot crawl back into wherever it is that they winter.  Mud?

Here’s what they look like:

Here’s what they sound like:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SM6leUVorY