The mystery of a nearly invisible tropical pinkletink which took up residence in an Oak Bluffs greenhouse has been solved. The tree frog, originally a native of Puerto Rico and thought to be a former resident of Hawaii, was captured last week by Gus Ben David of Edgartown.
“You can’t believe how loud it was,” Mr. Ben David said. “It had a piercing sound. We just couldn’t see it.”
Beldan Radcliffe reports that she heard pinkletinks singing at Pilot Hill Farm on March 7. Hers is the first pinkletink report of the season. Welcome, harbingers of spring!
Beldan Radcliffe alerted the Gazette last Friday that she heard pinkletinks at Pilot Hill Farm on March 10, followed by Karen Huff, who heard peepers, her “favorite sound,” around Farm Pond on March 11. Welcome, harbingers of spring!
Something about the songs of those sneaky little night peepers we
call pinkletinks is both timely and timeless.
Their peeps mark a specific time each year, that window when the
world begins to thaw and a promise of warmer days hangs in the air, but
they span the years, too, connecting people to their youth, when they
trolled through swamps with a net and a mason jar hoping to catch one of
the tiny frogs.
