{"id":10128,"date":"2023-03-20T22:26:07","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T02:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/?p=10128"},"modified":"2023-06-30T11:53:19","modified_gmt":"2023-06-30T15:53:19","slug":"spring-chorus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2023\/03\/spring-chorus\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring chorus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On Friday when I went for a walk in Whitney Woods here in Cohasset, the marshes were silent. On Saturday, I heard a chorus of frogs calling from a couple of marshes and one vernal pool. When I returned on Sunday, the temperature had dropped 20 degrees, from about 54 degrees to the mid-30s. There were a lot fewer frogs calling on Sunday, but some were still singing away. They sounded like a bunch of ducks gabbling together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whenever I tried to get close enough to see them, all I ever saw was a circular ripple where a frog slipped underwater. Nevertheless, identification was relatively easy. Here&#8217;s the description of the voice of the Wood Frog (<em>Rana sylvatica<\/em>) in the Peterson <em>Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians:<\/em> &#8220;A hoarse clacking sound suggesting the quack of a duck.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/musicofnature.com\/calls-of-frogs-and-toads-of-the-northeast\/\">Another source says<\/a>: &#8220;from a distance, a chorus [of Wood Frogs] sounds like a gathering of miniature ducks quacking.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ll let you decide if they sound like ducks or not. Here&#8217;s my lo-fi audio recording:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Frogs.m4a\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday when I went for a walk in Whitney Woods here in Cohasset, the marshes were silent. On Saturday, I heard a chorus of frogs calling from a couple of marshes and one vernal pool. When I returned on Sunday, the temperature had dropped 20 degrees, from about 54 degrees to the mid-30s. There &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2023\/03\/spring-chorus\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Spring chorus&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[945,845],"tags":[948],"class_list":["post-10128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-se-massachusetts","tag-herps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10128"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10133,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10128\/revisions\/10133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}