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Peepers!.......

diggerdee zone 6 CT

last month

Haven't had much time to post lately, but the other day I heard peepers for the first time this year and immediately thought of our posts here. Every evening for the last five days as I drove home and heard them I thought, I HAVE to post! So finally I am!

To me this is such a joyous sound. It tells me me spring is finally on its way! I love that first time hearing them especially. So exciting!

Has anyone else heard them yet?

:)

Dee

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gardengal48 (PNW Z8/9)

last month

They are pretty much a year round presence here, only going quiet (I assume some sort of hibernation?) if it is too cold (very rarely) or very dry (often in midsummer).

I had one little guy that took up winter residence under the lid of my BBQ. Scared the stuffing out of me the first time I opened it for the season and he jumped out!! I learned to open the lid very cautiously after that, as he often reappeared. And did so for several years. Don't know how long tree frogs live but it must have been the same one to keep returning to the BBQ every year. It's not exactly a frog palace!!

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mxk3 z5b_MI
last month
I've been hearing them, too...assuming that "peepers" means tree frogs...
laceyvail 6A, WV
last month
Not yet.
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Too funny last night. I was driving home from work, and rolled down the window at the usual spots to listen to the peepers. When I passed one usual spot, I swear there was one peeper - ONE. Just one. It sounded so weird and kind of silly, to just hear the one little guy. The other usual spots were hopping (no pun intended) but that one spot just had that one little peeper - with a big voice. :) Dee
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The hubby heard them the night before last on a drive into Rutland to get supplies. Rt 7 along the flooded Otter Creek where he heard the chorus is about a week or more ahead of us as far as temperatures go up here on the mountain. Nonetheless I heard a few frogs singing last night when I went out on the back porch. They might have been wood frogs. Usually when the peepers start singing here it is a deafening chorus, but this was just a few solo singers. We're in for a few days of cold weather. After that I expect the spring frogs will be reveling.
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Jeb zone 5
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The Spring Peepers have been singing here in north east Ohio for the last two weeks. We have had unusually mild temperatures that have brought them out earlier than usual. Across the street from me catty - corner to my house is an old farm pond and the singing they do at night is almost deafening - but I love hearing it!
Barrheadlass
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Not yet!
Jeb zone 5
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The spring peepers that herald in the spring weather with their singing are not the same treefrogs that live in the Pacific Northwest. When spring peepers are done laying eggs for the season they hide out for the summer months and it is very rare to see any. In the springtime there can be hundreds of them breeding in ponds and vernal pools. Spring Peepers live in the eastern states and parts of Canada.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring_peeper

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_tree_frog
peren.all Zone 5a Ontario Canada
last month
Not yet, but I eagerly anticipate them.
Design Fan
last month
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Happy spring!

The peepers were around this week in surround sound! There must be a bumper crop as the vernal pools in the woods surrounding my property have sprung up due to the rainy weather.
deanna in ME Barely zone 6a, more like 5b
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No peepers here yet, but spring is early so it should be soon!
Linda G (zone 6a)
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just heard them tonight for the first time this spring! Southern NH
forever_a_newbie_VA8
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I don’t know how it sounds, but we here woodpecker a lot
prairiemoon2 z6b MA
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I've been hearing a lot of woodpeckers this spring too. That and mourning doves. I am not in an area that has Peepers, though.
rouge21_gw (CDN Z5b/6a)
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Frogs and garter snakes were easy to spot when I was knee high to a grasshopper but now I almost never see them (or even hear) and yet we live next to a greenspace...sigh.

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