Spring Peepers
The waters at the upper end of Burches
Run
Lake
have
been
visited each and every year by thousands of
Spring Peepers, who
migrated to the still waters from the surrounding
valley.
There were so many hopping about; one had to be cautious when
walking along!
Though, there will still be some vernal pools, or big “puddles”,
which appear with the wet spring weather, much of their spring
breeding habitat, here, may have been lost due to the breach of the
dam.
We know they are, still, present in the surrounding area. We can
hear them peeping
!
However, we are curious to learn how many Spring Peepers will, now,
return to Burches Run each spring.
So, we’d appreciate your help!
Click
Spring Peeper, to
learn more about them,and learn to recognize their
peep
!
Then,
when you visit the cache site, during spring and summer,
please share with
us, in your log whether or not, you see or hear them
close by!
Special
Thanks to the
West Virginia Conservation Agency
Northern Panhandle Watershed Conservancy District
Board Members for permission to place our
geocaches!
You can
learn much more about frogs &toads,
and how to become a frogwatcher,
here!
The USGS has lots of info about… biology, geology,
geography
, geospatial
information, water and
more !
Wherever you may go, whatever you may do~
please
make
an effort to Tread Lightly! ®
