SourceThat nasal “peent” you sometimes hear just after sunset isn’t a frog.
It’s the beginning of a courtship ritual that happens over fields and open yards every early spring.
As the light fades, a small brown bird calls from the ground for a few minutes. Then, without warning, it lifts straight into the sky, circling high above the same spot. Its wings make a soft whistling sound overhead before it drops back to earth and starts calling again.
Most people never see it because it happens in the narrow window between daylight and dark, when few are still outside and almost no one is looking up.
If you step outside about twenty minutes after sunset on a mild evening and pause for a moment, you may hear it begin.
The show starts with one simple sound.
“Peent.”
The first day of Spring and they are likely back.. It is around about now that they show up.
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