[Magdalen] Spring comes to the Vineyard

[Jay Weigel]

Here we've had so  much water that they're probably everywhere.

On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 5:47 PM Charles Wohlers <chadwohl at satucket.com>
wrote:

> 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!
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
>