March

Spring peepers "peep" and wood frogs "quack" as their spring mating cycle begins. Shallow temporary ponds in Big Creek, Brecksville, Mill Stream Run and North Chagrin reservations are home to these small frogs for only a few days each spring as mates are found and eggs are laid.

On warm, wet rainy evenings in Brecksville, North Chagrin and Mill Stream Run reservations hundreds of salamanders may trudge to their ancestral breeding ponds. Valley Parkway in Brecksville is occasionally closed to protect them as they cross the road.

American toads' long trilling calls can be heard in wet spots throughout Cleveland Metroparks as their short breeding cycle begins.

Green frogs call at mid-day. Their banjo-like "gunk-gunk" calls are easy to tell from the "jug-o-rum" calls of the look-alike bullfrog.