Frog in the Neighborhood

For the last couple weeks, I’ve thought I’ve heard a frog at my window. We never have frogs in our yard. In all the years I’ve lived here, we’ve had wayward cats, dogs, skunks, possum, snakes, squirrels, raccoons, a variety of birds and butterflies, snails and slugs and bugs, but never frogs.

Every time I went outside to get a better listen…the croaking stopped. I decided it was just a starling mimicking a frog’s croak. But when I walked outside last rainy Wednesday, the frog was croaking, right...