After the winter we had, it’s incredibly enjoyable to once again hear birds singing. Our avian friends that we too often take ...

Eager children clad in rain boots and warm jackets carried nets, buckets and flashlights on their quest to find frogs earlier this week in Mount Airy’s Windy Ridge Park. Their parents accompanied them ...

One of the earliest signs of spring isn’t something you can see, feel, or touch. You probably won’t even hear it during the day. This harbinger of spring is heard in the evening, long before the last ...

A spring peeper is pictured at the Audubon Community Nature Center Photo by Jeff Tome Audubon just wrapped up our last weekend of Audubon Lights, where colorful lights and scenes illuminated one of ...

Amazing things happen in nature as spring begins. The weather changes, plants and trees begin to flourish, and animals start to emerge from their hiding places. According to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife ...

All over the world, amphibians are in decline. The reasons are legion: Wetland homes are drained; pesticides and herbicides interfere with their life cycles; invasive species introduced as pets bring ...

Yesterday (3/4 – Monday) was the first day I heard the “spring peepers” or chorus frogs. They are among the first sounds of spring. In the evening…I sometimes walk out to the end of the driveway to ...

Every spring, visitors are serenaded by a chorus of frogs emanating from Stillman’s cattail marsh. And almost every person comments, “Listen to those spring peepers.” Guess what? Almost everyone who ...

Zak Mertz holds a spring peeper frog, moments before setting it free next to a vernal pool in Weymouth, Mass. Inside the New England Wildlife Center in Weymouth, Zak Mertz pointed to what he called a ...

There’s a sure sign that spring is just around the corner. Over the past couple of weeks, the silence of the night has been ...