The sleet season presages winter and yodeling Tundra Swans stream south and east for warmer places. The last Leopard Frogs finally cross the busy highway in Baker Park Reserve, thanks to Madeleine Linck and her volunteer frog ferry crew. Carrying frogs to safety while swans serenade overhead .life can't get much better. Sudden cold causes some toads to dig down deeper into the forest soils where they remain nearly comatose during winter. By now, winter has settled in.
Ice covers ponds and lakes and the cold air chills frogs under the forest leaves.
These chemicals take most of the peepers, tree frogs, chorus frogs, and wood frogs safely through the cold Minnesota winter until spring starts the cycle of rebirth again.