There’s a sure sign that spring is just around the corner. Over the past couple of weeks, the silence of the night has been disturbed by a loud peeping sound. It’s mating season for the spring peeper.

One of the earliest signs of spring isn’t something you can see, feel, or touch. You probably won’t even hear it during the day. This harbinger of spring is heard in the evening, long before the last ...

LAKE TWP. – Nothing announces its presence like the spring peeper. Sure, gobblers and songbirds might be the dominant vocalists of the daytime, but when darkness falls the chorus of the peeper ...

A Northern Spring Peeper crawling over a bed of moss. iSTOCK/COX A Northern Spring Peeper crawling over a bed of moss. iSTOCK/COX I’ve heard, or more accurately, read, that you can hear a lion’s roar ...