In a message dated 4/1/99 2:57:11 PM Eastern Standard Time, paulydia@erols.com writes: << Usually our yard--with an old farm pond adjacent--resounds with the calls of spring peepers. This year, it is almost entirely silent. Has anybody else noticed such a change? Any explanations? >> My explanation, Lydia, is that they wore themselves out calling back in late January!! Frank Boyle and I actually had two frog species calling on the Montgomery mid-winter count, in a wet bottomland area off Brighton Dam Rd. Rick Sussman Warblerick@aol.com Ashton,MD