My little frog friend continued his sweet tweeting throughout the holidays and into winter. On a very warm and sunny day he tweeted for 25 minutes. My son was home from college at the time and got a big kick out of hearing him since he’s heard so much about this spring peeper. I just love hearing his sweet tweets and they always make me smile. Then, all of a sudden they stopped and it seemed like a week went by with no tweets. I’m not always home during the day so I checked to see if anyone else heard him and, no one had. I became worried and wondered if it was because it was so cold outside and being by the window caused him to go into hibernation. Another possibility was that his food source (bugs) was gone. A full week passed without anyone hearing a sound and then one day there was a squeaky almost hoarse sounding tweet. He sounded sick. It’s still very cold and since the plants are next to the window and might be too cold, I opened a heater vent even if it meant drying out the plants. I then decided it was time to supplement his food source.

I went to the pet store thinking I would pick up some dead flies to sprinkle around the plants but instead they recommended live food. I never imagined I would be buying live bugs and worms to put in my plants, but I did. I can’t really tell if he’s taken a nibble on them, for all I know they just crawled in the dirt. He is however tweeting again, even as I am writing this, and I hope he can hang in there until spring when I’ll move the plants outside so he can join the community chorus of spring peepers. I continue to look through the plants for any sign of him but he remains invisible yet enjoyable. The photo of what my peeper looks like tweeting is from istock photo, enjoy!

Here are links to my other posts about my friend the Spring Peeper: It’s Spring?, Help! My House is Tweeting!, Anonymous Twitter, I Found My Twitter!

Posted By: Sonja Lovas