It’s black fly season in the Adirondack North Country. They’re out in full force in the central Adirondacks, where I recently went camping. But once the sun sets and the temperature drops, the evening ...

A spring peeper sits beside a worm on a wet road during a Maine Big Night outing photographed by volunteer Leo Eli Goddard this spring. Spring peepers are small chorus frogs commonly heard calling ...

Woodland phlox are blooming, robins are nest building, thermometers are fluctuating and spring peepers are singing their chorus in marshy woods, swamps, ponds and ditches. These tiny tree frogs ...

Follow the cacophony of frogs — spring peepers, wood frogs and boreal chorus frogs — into the woods and you’ll likely find a small pond created by snowmelt and rainwater. These seasonal pools, often ...

You've read 5 stories this month. Support the CT Mirror reporting you rely on. Across the eastern United States, and stretching into Canada, residents know it’s spring when they hear the chirp of the ...

On a Tuesday night in April, beneath a sky mottled with clouds, a slick stretch of road in Cumberland, Maine, erupted in sound. It started with a few high-pitched chirps, like the coos of chicks.

Every day as we advance toward May, the wetlands around our region’s lakes play a symphony of songs that enchant those of us who love our outdoors. Springtime music fills the air around Mosquito, ...

Anne Marie Hartigan Peeper passed away peacefully alongside her family on Sunday, March 22, in Orlando, FL. She was born in Washington, D.C., on October 28, 1944, to G. Frank Hartigan and Pauline ...

The Dreibelbis Farm Historical Society will host a Spring Pepper Walk and celebrate local Native American culture and heritage during two upcoming events held at the historic Dreibelbis farm in ...

Northern Leopard Frogs are typically the first frog you'll hear when the temperatures begin to rise. The northern leopard frog is often discussed as the earliest frog sound you'll hear when the ...