Hyla crucifer. These little peepsters can be heard at any month of the year - as long as things aren't frozen solid! Occasional peeping can be heard surprisingly-far from water, but in the springtime these gather in great numbers to breed, and large choruses seem to jingle like sleighbells when heard at a distance.

Small woodland pools to great and vast wetlands usually harbor a few (or many!) at breeding time, and will be found on reeds and grasses, cattails, floating masses of dead grass, low vegetation, and even high in the trees! They sometimes come to lights, and just before a storm, you may hear one "peeping" just outside your window!

These were taken near Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania.

Hyla crucifer

Here's a video of Hyla crucifer, and here you can both see and hear it!

























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