Storm chaser Reed Timmer was in Greenville, South Carolina where he caught sight of spring peeper frogs chirping at sunset on Feb. 16.

For such a tiny frog, the Northern Spring Peeper can sure belt out its message. I've been listening to these little ones chirp their hearts out, a welcome sign of greenness and growth. Even though ...

The Peeper: easy to hear, harder to spot. It’s an unmistakable sound. One that elicits memories, sights and scents of events long ago. It recalls the joy of youth, the possibility of a spring evening.

It’s an unmistakable sound. One that elicits memories, sights and scents of events long ago. It recalls the joy of youth, the possibility of a spring evening. But it can also incite insomnia and the ...

Over the years, I've been asked several times about "the birds that chirp all night." Well, there are birds that sing at night, but not everything that chirps and peeps is a bird. If it is early ...

Nov. 23—A spring peeper frog's shrill chirp pierced the still air the other day, as four of us hiked near a marsh at Pequot Woods in Groton. "It's fall, not spring. What's a peeper doing out now?" I ...

Peeper seekers, Gianna George, Mt. Airy, takes a photo of her children, Alaina, 3 and Grady, 5 prior to the search. Nearly 30 people gathered with buckets, nets and flashlights at East West Park in Mt ...