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 ...

This thumbnail-sized frog is the “spring peeper,” and hearing it fills me with joy. Every ditch and pool comes alive with peeper calls in February, as long as the weather is warm enough.

These frogs are the wood frog, pictured above; the spring peeper; the gray tree frog; and the similar Copes gray tree frog.

spring peeper and wood turtle our official state dog, amphibian and reptile, respectively. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Before we go adding multiple cold-blooded creatures to our increasingly chaotic catalog ...