Gray tree frog at Trail Wood pond

Trail Wood #90 Earl Plato

We did not walk all the trails of Trail Wood that July day. I wish we had taken the time. E were headed for Mystic Seaport. Ed Teale cites some of the following places he walked so many times.
“ Along Azalea Shore, down Stepping Stone Brook, at the edge of Whippoorwill Cove, spring peepers- the “peep frogs” of country folks - lift their clear little voices in a chimming chant. Endlessly, tirelessly, on and on into the night, their chorus repeats the same refrain: “Spring! Spring!” At intervals, lifting above this batrachian chorus comes another sound of the season. It is the musical, fluttering call of the peeper’s larger relative, the gray tree frog, Hyla versicolor. The calling grows louder as we near the leaning wild apple tree that is rooted close to the water’s edge on he northern side of the pond.”