First Spring Peepers

 

The Spring Peeper frogs (Pseudacris crucifer) have begun their local chorus. They lay their masses of eggs, which hatch out into thousands of tadpoles, which produce many hundreds of little frogs, which disappear into the leaf litter of the forest floor. You can always tell a small frog is a Peeper, as it will have an X in hte color scheme of its back. Spring Peeper frogs hibernate under logs or behind loose bark on trees, and they can survive the freezing of their internal body fluids. Pretty amazing animals, really.