The Apocalypse of the Spring Peepers
There was the barest breath of wind when I came near the beach at Nedow’s Bay on Lake Leelanau last Sunday, I heard the unmistakable sound of spring peepers. Frogs that you hear happily announcing the return of warmth every late April or May.
My mind filled with the vision of The Apocalypse of the Spring Peepers, that dark day when tens of thousands of tiny frogs out way too early, fooled by the warm winter, were brutally snuffed out by its icy return. As I walked to the shore, I realized that there was a paper thin film of ice on the surface of the water near shore and that breath of wind was causing the ice to move and sing.
It still sounded exactly like spring peepers. (Peeperpedia, The Sound of Peepers)
The above photo is mine, from the site where the Spring Peepers were very nearly tragically killed.
farlane said,
March 26, 2007 at 5:17 pm
Now there are real peeper peeping. In March. I can’t remember ever hearing them this early.
Still, nice to hear a sound that says “summer is coming.”