Heard my first ones this morning.

The anticipation builds!

Ahhhhhhhhhh Peepers

Me too this afternoon

Very cool! I haven't heard them but the local vernal pools was still frozen over last I looked. Should be good in a couple days though..

Same here. Heard them around 6 tonight when I got home from work :kewl:

Up here too tonight!

Peepers USED to mean it was time to get herring:crying: ..........but it still means they are coming.:happy:

6 day's ago on my bogs wait till april if you walk down the middle of the bogs and there PEEPING it's enough to freak you out it makes your body vibrate it plays games with your inner being there might be better words for this but I'm not fooling you'll be lost for words
come join me it will change you
LINK Sr:smokin:

I love that sound this time of year!!

Last year, 'round this time, maybe later, I was working the mid-shift. Around 0200, pulled into the local parking lot, window down (Real warm that night) and heard them. Turned the car off and sat a listened to them for about 1/2 hour. Partner pulls in and asks what I'm doing so I tell him. To this day, he STILL thinks I'm nuts (Although he is right)

Very peaceful after a long winter. Brings everything into perspective and lets you know that the fishing is not that far off! I love it!!!

6 day's ago on my bogs wait till april if you walk down the middle of the bogs and there PEEPING it's enough to freak you out it makes your body vibrate it plays games with your inner being there might be better words for this but I'm not fooling you'll be lost for words
come join me it will change you
LINK Sr:smokin:
i've delved into that phenomenon on numerous occasions
Link....and it's the equivalent of budhist monks chanting
in a temple... as the tree frogs begin an echo melody
that... kind of ricochets off the origional reverberations
of the third kind. i know what you mean.

MountainCaster called from his home in Kentucky. Says "here, listen to this" Holds his cell out so's I can hear the peepers. All is right in the world now.

I went outside to my Jeep last night around 9. It was a veritable peeper symphony. Beautiful early spring night, clear sky, crescent moon, and one lone coyote howling in the woods behind the house. I had to just stand still for a few minutes and drink it all in.

Man, this sure beats the hell out of living on Long Island :humpty:

Had to dig up the peeper threads from past years to check out the dates. First night I have heard the symphony this year. Right on schedule.

This morn as well - Central Mass

Wow a blast from the past!And yes I've heard them out my way too!

I couldn't help myself...I put my little 2pc schoolie rod in the truck last night.

Yep herad them last night when I got home from work. Spring is here

I have them too,I look forward to comming home at night because I know they'll be loud & clear,it's an awesome sound of nature!

2 nite I went out 2 take a wizz on the Bog and I had Peepers on my PE PE THERE BACK ,,, RAVEN in full swing on my dingaling
Link SR
I get no respect:bshake::buds::cheers::rumble:

They woke up last weekend over here in swansea......the herring must have alerted them. :buds:

What are Peepers?

The spring peeper is a small species, attaining an adult size between 0.75 inches (19 mm) and 1 inch (25 mm) long. They have a dark cross on their backs roughly in the shape of an "X" (thus the Latin name crucifer, for cross)[1], though sometimes the marking may be indistinct. The color variations of the P. crucifer are mostly tan, brown, olive green, and gray. Females are lighter-colored, while males are slightly smaller and usually have dark throats. This frog has a vocal sac located by its throat, which expands and deflates like a balloon to create a short and distinct peeping sound. Only males have the ability to make this loud high-pitched noise, and they use it to attract mates. This creature lives in wetlands, marshes, and pond or swamp regions in order to support the aquatic environment the larvae need. The Spring Peeper breeds between the months of March to June, and deposits around 900 eggs that are hidden under vegetation or debris at the water base. After hatching, they transform into frogs and are ready to leave the water in about eight weeks.

they use it to attract mates. This creature lives in wetlands, marshes, and pond or swamp regions in order to support the aquatic environment the larvae need.

ie. Why Link is drawn to the bogs at night.....:lurk:

When the peeps get in full swing , take a walk at night on the bog outside my backdoor it's freaky, no BS even without a couple of wobbly pops it's a wickid pissa experience . Next Sat. night come on down and feel what we feel during this early Spring season ,I even think the ECHO and REVERB adds to it .
ML Sr.

What are Peepers?
You gotta get out of downtown more often.

A few gallons of acetone into the pond with fix that peeper problem.

-spence

You gotta get out of downtown more often.

Lived in West Mansfield for 10 years, as far out of town as you could get. 7 houses on one side of the street, forests on the other side and at the end.

Knew the sound, just didn't know what made it.

I saw the frogs coming out last night, peepers are not far away here. We have a few.

This creature lives in wetlands, marshes, and pond or swamp regions in order to support the aquatic environment the larvae need...

I always wondered, what do they do in the winter?

I wished they'd pick one night and have a big -old-orgy and get this peepin' stuff over with......I don't find it as mystical as Mister Link does...


:cool:

We've been hearing them for over a week now. I almost ran one over late thursday night as I was driving home. I don't mind the noise too much, but I hate having them hopping all over my yard and taking up residence in my pool all summer. I scooped 4 of them off the pool cover over the weekend and there was already an egg sack floating on top of the cover.

I might have to take Spence's advice and do something to the little pond next door.

The peepers, when they get a chorus going, sound like the giant ants in that old sci-fi movie "THEM".

As of cane toads, I am thankful we don't have that problem anywhere in the US, since they are poisonous to anything that "tries" to eat them.

What are Peepers?


they are the canary in the coal mine

the year that are all gone ...........

will be a very bad one

GEZZE I just" sauteed"( SPELLING) a bunch of thoes PEEPERS and I feel Gr8t
we need spell check on the Site BOSS MAN , it took me 10 min. to type this
so, I'm slow and low in the groove to move on to a much more intelligent life but I 'm afraid it won't happen in this lifetime.
ml:faga:

Well after weeks of deafening concert like peeping, heard only one or two tonight. Looks like they are gonna have to settle for sloppy seconds.

First night for the peepers.

a little earlier than last year.

I just went out and could hear peepers in the distance. Also noticed the first sign of night crawlers in the grass. Still too cold for them to be too active and definitely skidish.

I just went out and could hear peepers in the distance. Also noticed the first sign of night crawlers in the grass. Still too cold for them to be too active and definitely skidish.

I saw tons of night crawlers just last weekend, granted I did flip my septic cap over :smash:

-spence

I saw a frog hopping across the street last Saturday and thought it was pretty early. Tonight, I heard the peepers when I got home. I hate those things.

I read this last year.... and still have no idea what the peepers sound like.

I heard peepers and my tulips are coming out and the middleborough herring run is loaded....Its so around the corner I feel like I kid the night before christmas

I read this last year.... and still have no idea what the peepers sound like.

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I read this last year.... and still have no idea what the peepers sound like.

I just got in from having a cigar and glass of Dansk outside and the things were peepin' up a storm. I don't mind the sound so much as the things invading my lawn and pool every spring. They sound just like their name implies.

I saw a frog hopping across the street last Saturday and thought it was pretty early. Tonight, I heard the peepers when I got home. I hate those things.

I thought I saw a frog/toad or something last week. I was pretty sure but then convinced myself it may have been a little early and maybe a leaf. Now I'm pretty sure. It is early but that's ok with me. Leaves don't hop:)

I heard peepers and my tulips are coming out and the middleborough herring run is loaded....Its so around the corner I feel like I kid the night before christmas

We noticed the tulips yesterday but I haven't heard the peepers yet. Tulips and daffodils.

Sill have ice on my pond so no peepers. Crouses, daffies and tulips are up.

Sounds I love:

Peepers
Osprey screeching over a creek filled with splashing herring.
Loons on Echo Lake
The cacophony of sounds emanating from the Costa Rican rainforest
Herring gulls
Bullfrogs bellowing in the night
Crashing surf
Screaming drag
Water filling my snorkel
The clanging of bell buoys on a foggy night
The alarm clock – when it’s time to go fishing/diving

Sounds I hate:

Airplanes
Traffic
ATVs
Leaf Blowers
Assorted industrial sounds
Bell buoys that have replaced their bells with an electronic noise that sounds like you’ve left your car door open
Alarm clock when it’s time to go to work

Some sounds I like:

The sound of a fish hitting a surface lure, be it fresh or salt water.


When a small plane flies over on a quiet day. It's that light droning sound that hits me.

The call of a mocking bird. They can and will mimic any sound that cathces their ear. I once heard one mimic a cat meow on the tip-top of a maple tree, or another time when I heard one mimic a lawnmower.

one last favorite sound (which I do miss here at work) was our old fax machine. When a fax was coming in, it made the identical sound as the channel marker at the entrance to Duxbury Bay. I could here this sound wafting across the bay on a foggy night while fishing the Powderpoint Bridge. The fax machine would pop that memeory into my head all year long, and I loved it.


Sound that I hate Traffic and automobile noises, sirens, sreeching tires, etc....
Loud radios playing unintelligible rap music, cause it really all does sound exactly the same, and it's generally junk music to begin with.
Personally, I hate drunks, no matter what I am doing. I grew up with an alcoholic dad (who did quit) and I don't need to relive those memories EVER.

I heard-em last night!

No peepers last night but they are screaming right now.

I read this last year.... and still have no idea what the peepers sound like.


YouTube - PEEPERS: A Million Jingle Bells (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eBUDO6R0Ok)

A couple of amazing shots from a tree in the yard last year.

Just went out back with my son based on this thread. Literally heard 1 going about every two seconds. We were cracking up.

You mean its safe to come out of hibernation now? :hidin:

In Vermont I haven't heard peepers yet, but the birds are going crazy. Lots of geese returning to Champlain and walking to work this morning I counted 7 cardinals singing away. And a few crocuses in bloom.

also for me it is the song from robins siting high in a tree as the sun is getting low in the sky. Sound is so spring.
I listened last nite when i got home from work but no peepers yet in my neck of the swampy woods although with all this rain they probably drowned.

A solitary peeper heard tonight while having a butt.... Dates have been pretty consistant here year over year. Even with these cold nights.

Still a solid foot of snow on the ground here ... 2000 feet up in western Mass., where there ain't no striped bass.

no peepers yet here because its colder ,24 degrees
i still have snow.... temps ramp up after today tho... SPRING

they are the first line of defense against mosquito's
before the bats (populations severely diminished)
and the flying (eat bugs out of the air) birds arrive.

keep in mind that the skeeters have up to ten disease's now
adequate vitamin B1 in your diet deters them

as they TASTE your skin before dippin the straw for blood
and when they taste the vitamin B1 :point: they fly away

Holy crap!Talk about bringing up an older thread.

They're peeping down my way.Won't be long before it gets loud.