[Magdalen] Spring comes to the Vineyard

[Charles Wohlers]

Right now the peepers are hibernating at the bottom of some pond. Around 
here, it'll be another few weeks before we start hearing them, and boy 
do we hear them! We have a pond a couple hundred yards from the house 
which is ideal spring peeper habitat.

Spring is running late here this year, mostly due to huge amounts of 
snow we've had this winter. Sugaring didn't really start until a few 
days ago, and it'll be going on now for the next several weeks. 
Meanwhile, the snow is still here: 
https://www.flickr.com/photos/cwohlers/.

-- 
Chad Wohlers
chadwohl at satucket.com
Woodbury, VT   USA



On 18.03.2019 17:19, Marion Thompson wrote:
> And what will the peepers do now, poor things?  ☹  I loved hearing
> them in Whitevale where there was so much wet land with the creek and
> the old mill race and everything.  And the other ones that sounded
> like quacking ducklings.  And the annual toad chorus.  I don’t get
> that here where I am now.
> 
> The sap must be rising in us!  I was out for a bit today cutting down
> taller garden debris while the ground is still frozen under ever-less
> snow,  and  nearly all my parking pad is free of ice around the edges.
> 
> Marion, a pilgrim
> 
> Sent from Mail for Windows 10
> 
> From: Jay Weigel
> Sent: Monday, March 18, 2019 4:50 PM
> To: magdalen at herb.erthouse.org
> Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Spring comes to the Vineyard
> 
> My  next door neighbor in Tennessee built a pond. For years they had
> peepers. I loved them. The pond is filled in now, I noticed on my last
> visit down there. :(
> 
> On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 4:37 PM ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> When I was little, Mom used to hand out blankets and drive us around 
>> the
>> seacoast area, windows rolled down, in the spring dark. Whenever she 
>> heard
>> peepers, she'd pull off the road and we'd sit under the spell, 
>> listening.
>> We did this every year.
>> 
>> And I still do. Have done this all my life.
>> Weird, I guess, but I just love to listen to them.
>> The gf says they sound just like jinglebells.
>> 
>> We plan to do our annual peeper run early this year.
>> But I've heard them as late as Mother's Day.
>> -M
>> 
>> 
>> On Monday, March 18, 2019, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>> > What an absolutely wonderful word! “Peepers” sounds so pedestrian by
>> > comparison!
>> >
>> >
>>