Last Tuesday afternoon the frogs at Raccoon Creek State Park Wildflower Reserve in Beaver County, PA were singing up a storm so I recorded them with my cell phone.
The loud peeps or “crrrreeeep” sounds are spring peepers. The low mutterings or quackings are wood frogs.
There are so many wood frogs in this audio that you can’t hear individuals. There are so few spring peepers that you can hear each one. There might be more species here but I don’t have the ear to hear them.
Check out this list of western Pennsylvania frogs for more possibilities.
(video recorded on March 31, 2015 by Kate St. John)
I also recorded the Spring peepers at Green Cove this past week. Standing close to the edge of the water area, it was nearly deafening. 🙂
In the swamp behind our house, back by the river, the spring frog songs are crazy-loud. Once they were so amazing that at first we thought someone was using a yard machine of some kind, but it was the frogs! We still laugh about that one.