Here's the culprit

At night a loud PEEP! PEEP! sounds across the pond. It's one of the first sure signs of spring.

That loud noise is made by a very tiny frog.

There he is - the Spring Peeper.

Sound of Spring

When it gets dark, someone starts singing outside. Loudly.

"Peep!" "Peep!' No wonder this tiny frog is called a Spring Peeper.

Tree Frogs

Jacob has caught little Green Frogs to put in the aquarium. Those little frogs came from the pond. When they grow up, they will look like this: Today we found a different kind of frog. These frogs don't live in the pond.
I think they are not supposed to live in the spa, either. But that's where we found them.
Do you see the sticky dots on the ends of their toes?
They are really good climbers because they can stick to things.
When they jumped on us, they tried to climb up us with their very sticky feet.
We were too busy getting them off of us to take a picture.

This is what they look like when they are looking at you.

Mostly they like to hide.

At night we listen to them croak.

These frogs are Gray Tree Frogs.

News from the Frog Tank

Three of our tiny frogs are lively and seem to enjoy their temporary home. The fourth one stopped moving yesterday. This happens.

A nighttime adventure

Listen!
I hear something outside? What is making so much noise at bedtime?
It's really dark outside, but let's go out anyway. Let's see what is making that noise.

Bring your flashlight. Let's get close to the sounds and shine our lights around.

Did you see that? Did you see how its throat blew up like a bubble? That loud noise is a little tiny frog singing.

Shine your flashlight over there - there's something swimming. It's another frog.

And there's another one, sitting over there - they are tree frogs but they are pretty far from the trees.

Everywhere you turn your flashlight there are more and more little frogs! No wonder it is so loud out here!

Oops, now it's starting to rain. We'd better go back inside.

The frogs won't mind the rain. They'll just sing louder. Maybe they will sing us to sleep.