The diminutive Pacific Tree Frog. Photo by Mike Sevon via U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.If you want to know whether Spring is on the way, don’t look to groundhogs for the answer. Instead, listen for the frogs.
Certain species of frogs, such as the wood frog, begin singing even when there is still snow on the ground. They interpret cues from nature, including slight rises in temperature, that it’s time to travel to vernal pools and ponds and begin breeding. At the breeding sites, huge numbers of frogs sing to attract mates and the sound can be deafening. Puxataneuny Phil often gets things wrong, but a chorus of spring peepers rarely misses the mark on spring.
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