You can’t hear them or see them but earlier this week the air around this marsh was filled with the spring peepers doing what they do best – peeping. Spring peepers are actually tiny frogs (the northern ones are about 1 1/2 inches long with a brown X on their backs) and in spring they noisily sing their mating calls – by peeping, of course. It’s a lovely call – no wonder there are lot and lots of tiny peepers.

If you do not know what a peeper sounds like, take a listen. You may very well recognize it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring_Peeper (check under the media heading)

Wakonda State Park
LaGrange, Missouri
March 29, 2008