Spring Peepers and Blooming - Signs of Spring

Each and every March, somewhere between the 10th and the 30th, (during the first extended mild period, usually a moist period as well) the Spring peepers, those noisy tree frogs that sound kind of like crickets emerge in area fresh water bogs. In some cases the sound they emit in unison can be deafening. While they are a sure sign of spring, there is usually one snowfall that happens after they come out on average. The size of a thumbnail, these tiny creatures fill themselves up with air, as you can see by clicking on the picture to the left. They let out that mating toot that becomes more shrill later in the season as they mature in early May. They probably will hold off until right after the cold snap due here through early next week, but they are sure to "hatch" later next week or certainly before April 1st.

LATE NOTE: THE FIRST PEEPERS WERE REPORTED TO ME THURSDAY OF THIS PAST WEEK RIGHT ON SCHEDULE... straight from the Cranberry bogs. Now, trilling wood frogs have been reported as well as of 3/27.

AND LOOK AT THIS SIGN OF SPRING, bulbs are now blooming through the area. This picture was taken on Monday on the Vineyard.

Comments

[Linda Allen]

Good Morninng Todd,

Your info. on Crescent Moon crossing Seven Sisters Tonight, Sat. 04/01/06 is so helpful.

I have peepers and tree fogs. But they were not out Friday night here in Bolton on Spectacle Hill Rd. Maybe the rain will help fill my lower frontyard. NO! water as of now.

There where BULL fogs in HOG Brook at the corner of Bolton St. and Old Central St., Hudson, MA. for the past 15 years.

I will let you know if they show up this year because Simara Gardens stripped about seven acres across the street and built 158 apts. including affordable units. Water came off that wooded site to supply the fresh water for Hog Brook.

If I need to send to another URL please let me know.

We miss you, Linda and John Allen from Bolton.

[Mary Malmros]

Peepers come out in March in the flatlands! Up in the hills, it's still too cold for them. This evening, April 7, I heard the first peepers of the year in Charlemont, MA (and at that, I think we're a little early this year). Whenever you hear them, though, they always sound good!