Winter-weary folks longing for spring might seek signs in everything from bird songs to early blooming flowers to migrating ducks bobbing through the clouds on warming winds. For Matthew McCort, it’s ...

Frog-calling began with a few tentative spring peepers, wood frogs and chorus frogs in the past 10 days or so. But all three species should be calling in earnest with rains and warmer weather. William ...

All over the world, amphibians are in decline. The reasons are legion: Wetland homes are drained; pesticides and herbicides interfere with their life cycles; invasive species introduced as pets bring ...

A spring peeper is pictured at the Audubon Community Nature Center Photo by Jeff Tome Audubon just wrapped up our last weekend of Audubon Lights, where colorful lights and scenes illuminated one of ...

Ahhhh Spring! The thought of spring conjures up many sights, smells and sounds. After a long, hard winter, that red, red robin is a sight for frozen eyes to many and a sign of things to come for all.

A camouflaged spring peeper clings to the stem of a plant as its vocal sac slightly protrudes from its neck. Listen for the calls of spring peepers this week as these harbingers of spring emerge and ...

Each spring as the snow and ice melts during the thawing month of April, they create ponds. Many of these vernal pools do not retain water for long afterward, but for now the Northland has a plethora ...

Wilson Kerr lives in Concord and is an avid outdoorsman and amateur naturalist. This column is designed to help grow awareness of the wonders of nature. In this increasingly fast-paced and ...

Today’s batch of burning questions, my smart-aleck answers and the real deal: Question: I live in town, but in a wooded area near a river. Every year I hear spring peepers, but not this year. Also, by ...

Valentine’s Day is almost upon us, bringing to mind the words of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “In the spring a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.” If he had written that today instead of ...