I was tossing, turning and swearing retribution but I was not sleeping. It was after midnight and I had someone to blame. More accurately, something to blame. The annoying sound carried across the ...

The booming chorus of thousands of high-pitched “kreek-eecks” from a gathering of small but tenacious Pacific tree frogs has filled the night in many Central Coast locations with the recent warm rains ...

After having so much fun in last week’s column writing about robins, I thought, let’s explore tree frogs. Turns out there are a lot of interesting facts about these amphibians. This time of year, as ...

Urban wildlife sanctuaries, including an overgrown Capp Street backyard, are helping bring a tiny frog’s once-familiar bellow back to San Francisco. “At one time, the chorus frog was the sound of the ...

Pam Twitchell of Adair Village took this photo in June 2008 on her front porch. “My home is located across from a wetland and the little guys/gals find refuge in my flower pots. The flower ‘Prince’ is ...