Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for February 20, 2022

I have heard them in the trees for decades but have never once seen one. I hope they are as cute as in that next-to-last panel.

Do you know “The Michigan Rag”?

They already started their love song here in SC, it amazes they as cold blooded creatures can be so active when the temperature is around freezing!

I’m guessing Janis is removing the Christmas wreath, and not hanging it up?

We have the dearest little green or brown Pacific Tree Frogs here. I’m always careful when I’m outside I don’t step on one. I haven’t heard them yet.

I live near a Marsh and when Spring comes the peepers are singing. I love the sound because I know Spring is here.

The Robin is the first sign of Spring here and I’m looking forward to that sighting. I will be jumpung up and down saying no more high electric bills, winter is over !!!!

Panel2 – that peeper is peeing! Of course; he just got up!

No signs of Spring here in northernmost Maine. Lots of snow, Can-Am sled dog races next month, lots of ice fishing still going on, and over a foot of snow expected on Tuesday. Ain’t no Peepers here!

Why aren’t they in Oregon? 1st false Spring followed by 2nd Winter, followed by 2nd false Spring, followed by 3rd Winter. 55F today, 25F Tuesday.

There is an episode of Married With Children where….never mind, different kind of Peeper.

Down here, the frogs go “peehhhhhhhhhhhhEEHHHHHHHHPEKKPEKKPEKKPEKKPEKK!!!”

Our frogs have started already. Saw one yesterday eying a katydid twice its size.

Frogs keep the place hopping.

And all the wasted efforts celebrating the groundhog that never gets it right.

Love the little frog singing his heart out to the one peeking over the log with the heart. That’s adorable!

Spring peepers are incredibly loud… but a welcome sound here in VA. The funny part is when they’ve been “singing” for hours and then all of a sudden they all stop…. it’s at that point you start to understand the term “deafening silence”… then they start back up and all is well.

That third panel is both hilarious and delightful!

Here in parts of New England the poor frogs would be all confused. One day it’s 60; the next day 6" of snow and the temperature is in the teens.

if it’s knowledge, & practical, it’s not useless!

Never lived anywhere with peepers, but I heard kokee frogs in Hawaii one time. An invasive species about the size of a quarter, they are so loud you can hear them inside a closed car going 50 mph.

Soon we will have the geese and ducks returning from some place I probably wish I had been, and they will start the mating behavior. They get on top of roofs and just make the most incredible racket! The males fight, the females strut around, it’s incredible. I live near a pond. The deer finished their dance, the coyotes are probably done, so it’s big bird time. I already saw one big Canada male goose stake out his spot on a neighbor’s roof. It’s probably the highest one around. Then the swans will come. When they fly overhead, it sounds like a small helicopter. The geese don’t.

Peeps are nearly a year round thing…

Thus the song: "Froggie went a-courtin’… "

Looks like Mark Trail took a wrong turn at Albuquerque

There is a pond near my place in New England, one of the best days every year is when I hear the peepers, yay JJ.

As a kid I always listened for those. As an adult I listen for when they stop suddenly, signaling the arrival of a monster/alien/zombie/IRS agent/vampire/etc..

Enough frog talk, what is the deal with the Christmas wreath on Feb. 20?

In central New Hampshire, peepers start to sing in early April, and they’re very loud.

Hearing the first peepers gives me just enough strength to make it through the rest of the winter.

For a moment I thought I was reading Mark Trail . . .

In my neck of the woods, if there is a cold snap in late November through early December, and then back to the normal (low-‘60s during the day and mid to upper ’30s at night) we will get spring peepers at Christmas. Then we usually get them off and on in early to mid February. After Valentine’s, we hear the peepers all through March.

One of my cousins collected a bunch of them one summer night and put them in a jar. He left the lid partially off so they could breathe and went to bed, leaving the frogs in the living room. Of course, it was knocked over by the cat and my aunt awoke to little peepers all over the house.

Gpt ’em here in the south.