They could have picked tigers, elephants, wolves or ants. The sticky-toed frogs range from Canada to northern Florida, and west to Minnesota. For Jim, I realized, peepers were the only choice. I like going to sleep listening to the peepers,'' he says. It was a wet and misty night three weeks ago, when we walked through the wet grass down to the pond.
Fine rain drops shown in the beams of our flashlights.
I repeated my warning to Jim. Expect nothing, I said. Peepers are pretty much invisible. We switched off the lights, then turn them on when the sounds began again. Suddenly, a movement three feet away caught our attention.