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    Spring peepers in W.Va. break into chorus mid-March

    At least by the second week of March, West Virginians are being serenaded by a chorus of spring peepers, a  sure sign winter is done.

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    Pseudacris crucifer, as the little peepers are officially known, breed and vocalize when their wetland homes begin to thaw. After a long, cold winter, their voices are most welcome. You're more likely to hear them first in the warmer lowlands near or in early March and last in the Allegheny Mountains of the eastern state where the thaw won't come surely until April.

    As clearly as I an remember, I encounter them first in marshy bottoms on and near the Ohio River on the western border of the state, though I presume the beginning seeing first along the Potomac River in the Eastern Panhandle, where temperatures tend to warm first.

    The following Warticle contains plenty of information as well as sound files that will at least inspire hope in listeners in need of the promise of warmth: .


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    David Sibray
    David Sibray
    Historian, real estate agent, and proponent of inventive economic development in West Virginia, David Sibray is the founder and publisher of West Virginia Explorer Magazine. For more information, he may be reached at 304-575-7390.

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