3-6-09 Wood frogs and spring peepers at Kickapoo State Park

On a tip from a friend I and my ten-year-old son drove out to Kickapoo State Park hoping to hear wood frogs, which I had not yet ever heard. We hiked the trail to the vernal pools where we were told they could be found, but all we heard were spring peepers:



It was still ten minutes before sunset so we proceeded down the trail a ways, veered off to listen to some frogs at another pool-- still only spring peepers with a possible plains leopard frog in the mix-- but as we made our way back towards the first pool, now about 25 minutes after sunset, we could hear the spring peepers had been joined by a very healthy chorus of wood frogs:



What a difference 35 minutes can make!