To play this file, you will need a recent version of the RealPlayer . Frequents wooded or brushy areas. Not often seen outside the breeding season when it looks for insects in shrubs, trees, or on the ground. Distant chorus may sound like tinkling of sleigh bells. Breeds in pools, ditches, and ponds, from spring to early summer in North and from winter to spring in South.
Aggressive call is a short, stuttering trill, purrreeeek, usually rising in pitch at the end.
Rain call, given periodically from trees and shrubs in summer and autumn, is a repeated series of peeps or squeaks that are harsher and more dissonant than sprintime advertisement calls. Lang Elliott 3. This page designed and copyrighted 1997 by Lang Elliott, NatureSound Studio, PO Box 84, Ithaca, New York 14851-0084.