Ahhhh Spring! The thought of spring conjures up many sights, smells and sounds. After a long, hard winter, that red, red robin is a sight for frozen eyes to many and a sign of things to come for all.

With a body the color of dead leaves and a black “mask” extending behind the eyes, the wood frog is unmistakable if you can actually find one. Credit: PHOTO BY BILL DANIELSON During a recent lecture ...

For some, robins are the first sign of spring. But the changing of the seasons may be more accurately forecast by songs from a wet forest floor. On a warm night, wander near any fresh water and you’ll ...

YORK COUNTY, Pa. (WHTM) — Turn up the volume-this one’s all about the sound. We were able to get some pretty good audio of spring peepers one night when they weren’t being drowned out by the roar of ...

Spring has been trying to make its debut — a long overdue breakthrough for so many of us. While wind and rain have their way with us, the sounds of spring invade. Some of the sound is a bit like ...

Each spring, when the weather starts warming, Midlander Eldon Enger drives down dark country roads, getting out of his truck to check for frogs and toads nearby. Although it might sound like a kooky ...

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 ...

Following up on the World Around You feature from last Sunday about spring peeper tree frogs, a reader asked if I would find the small noisy spring frogs first to speak up around the Tulsa area — ...

Not long after the snow melts a procession of peeps, trills, chuckles, chortles, snores and bellows begins in the mid-Michigan outdoors. These are not the sounds of humans recovering from serious ...

You might think the sounds you hear coming from wetlands are the distant quacking of ducks. You’d be wrong. Or you might think the evening chorus of chirping along the creek is produced by a flock of ...

Last evening (April 4), at about 10 p.m., I poked my head outside and, noting that it wasn't raining, walked out on out deck that eventually overlooks The GEAA Golf Course on Crane Avenue in ...