Sociable climber

August 07, 2018  •  Leave a Comment

It was a long day on the road, since we had to temporarily bring Stasia back towards home—we've been meeting halfway outside of Boston for the handoff—and the drive left me pretty near spent. After we got back and the air cooled off a bit post-sunset, I went for a quick walk outside to listen to the rapidly building cricket and katydid chorus and to look for anything else intriguing in the critter department. One thing of note: this has been an absolutely amazing August for young frogs, and it seems that everywhere I step, I spook an adolescent batrachian, typically a small Pickerel Frog, or two. Tonight was no exception, but as I was trying to figure out the identity of some orthopteran singers in the low brush behind the vegetable garden, I noticed a familiar shape clinging about two feet up a slender branch. With a tip of the naturalist's floppy hat to Bogie and Casablanca, "Here's lookin' at ya, kid"—the kid, in this case, an already competent tree-climbing Spring Peeper... and probably not what Hollywood ever had in mind.


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