ah, so that's who was singing the other day! i went birding with
mason, a fellow tweeter, this past sunday and we heard frogs singing
from the trees surrounding the small park (?) on the northwestern
side of the hood canal bridge.

regards,

Deborah Wisti-Peterson email:nyneve at u.washington.edu
Department of Zoology, University of Washington, Seattle, Wash, USA
Visit me on the web: http://students.washington.edu/~nyneve/
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On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Rob Saecker wrote:

> >Member7179 at aol.com wrote:
> >>
> >> Don't forget 2 very important things we must get thru before spring is here:
> >> February and March!
>
> I think it's been mentioned on Tweeters before that some cultures mark the
> change of seasons from the midpoint between solstice and equinox, rather
> than on them. By that measure, spring started on Saturday, and to validate
> that observation, I offer my favorite indicator: the Pacific Tree Frogs at
> the local pond made their first attempts at chorusing on February 2nd, and
> are now well into warm-ups for the big concert to come.
>
> Rob Saecker
> Olympia, WA
> rsaecker at thurston.com
>
>
>