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Description
Spring peepers (Pseudacris crucifer) were present at one of two vernal ponds I visited and deafening at the other. Temperature was in the upper 60s, unseasonably warm. Largely overcast. They were active before sunset but, as I say, deafening after.
Your pics are awesome! Mid-call! I've hunted peepers before and I know that takes some patience. Hell, it takes patience just to see the little buggers.
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Your pics are awesome! Mid-call! I've hunted peepers before and I know that takes some patience. Hell, it takes patience just to see the little buggers.
Thank you Kueda! They were out in huge numbers and almost entirely ignoring me so it wasn't actually that hard to get the pictures.
Agree the pix are wonderful. The peepers are deafening in Connecticut ponds at the moment but seeing and hearing are very different things with them!
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