Spring Peepers

Spring Peeper

The Spring Peeper is a small frog and has a cross on its back.  It is a "chorus frog" common in Eastern US and Canada.

I may have heard of it before I married the kid's mother, but my vivid memory of them comes from sitting in the front yard at dusk with the kid's grandfather.  The pond was about 1/4 mile away and they were loud.  They have a big voice.  I think that he may have told me of their living in the pine trees near the pond but my concept of them for years was that they lived in the pond.

Spring Peeper

My understanding, now, is that they travel down to the pond to mate.  Being amphibians, the eggs hatch in the pond and the tadpoles, or pollywogs, mature there.  When they leave the pond they head back for the forest.

Spring Peeper

The naturalist stated that this is a full grown one.  For such a small frog they have an enormous voice.  Listen to my recording of them done this spring.  It is near the bottom of the page on the "Listen to Sounds" page of my web site.

I made this recording near the pond appropriately named the Frog Pond. 

Recording the Spring Peepers

 

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