Roads End Naturalist

Exploring the natural world as we wander at the end of the road


Tag: spring peeper

  • Summer Peep

    What we see is mainly what we look for.   ~Anonymous One morning when I walked out the front door I noticed a surprise visitor clinging to the edge of the tadpole-rearing container I have on the porch. It was an adult Spring Peeper, Pseudacris crucifer. As I reported on earlier this year, Spring Peepers were Read more…

  • The Sound of Spring

    …on the first warm night I stepped out to the back porch and heard in the distance a wonderfully high, thin sound, as clear as the first stars over the bare black trees. ~Kathleen Kilgore They have been calling off and on for awhile now. That distinctive, high-pitched, clear call that means the end of Read more…