SouthCoast Serenaded by Ribbiting Performance

If you have been enjoying the sounds of ducks quacking in a nearby pond, you may want to listen again...carefully.

Over the past few weeks I've been doing what many on the SouthCoast have been doing: cleaning up the yard. Tucked away behind a few rows of trees lies a small body of water that's home to some very vocal animals.

For a while now, I thought there was a family of ducks who returned to enjoy the warmer temperatures and take a bath in the nearby water. However, upon taking a closer look, I noticed no feathers, no beaks and no webbed feet.

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Instead, what I saw was lot and lots of ripples in the water. My husband told me it was frogs.

Yes, frogs.

Now I know frogs make plenty of sounds, but this one I hadn't heard before. It truly sounded like ducks. So the investigation began into what kind of frog it could be.

Prior to hearing the sound himself, my father-in-law suggested they may be spring peepers, popular in the eastern U.S. and fans of ponds.

However, when I played some video of the sounds they make, it wasn't quite right.

Sure enough, I discovered they're more vocal at night and even clam up when someone or something approaches. Moving on.

So what is one to do when they need an answer? You turn to Google, of course, and sure enough, a simple ask of "what frogs sound like ducks?" led me to the wood frog.

They're vocal during the day and the sound is identical to what I have been hearing. The Google search even said "They attract mates with a quacking call."

Case closed.

Curious as to what they sounds like? Take a listen: