When I hear the rattle of a northern red squirrel in the distance I often think it’s a bird call.  And when the wood frog chorus gets going in early spring I hear the sound of quacking ducks. I was hiking on the Eklutna Lakeside Trail in mid-May when I heard a bunch of ducks quacking towards the lake, which was just losing its ice.  Like Charlie … Continue reading Listening to the wood frogs of Eklutna Valley