No frog chorus in June?

We live near Auburn Marsh and every spring as soon as the weather gets warmer we hear a chorus of frogs going on almost through the entire night. This keeps going on the entire summer - very noisy and pleasant at the same time. Except this year, 2022. Nothing, no sound of frogs. It's already June and no noise. What happened?

That is very unusual that you would not be hearing any frogs this summer. Typically, we hear an explosion of frog activity in wet areas in late March or April as spring peepers and wood frogs enter the breeding pools. Peepers make a distinctive ‘peep peep’ sound and can sound like jingle bells when in full chorus. Our wood frogs make a unique ‘clack clack’ sound. After wood frogs are finished, we will hear toads, with their high-pitched trill, followed by tree frogs. As the summer progresses, those loud choruses will be replaced with bull frog or green frog calls. Bull frogs sound like light sabers, and green frogs sound like a banjo being plucked. Is it possible you missed the springtime chorus this year, or have you truly not heard any frogs? The only possibility I can imagine, if there are no frogs near your home, is that something killed them all — like a pollutant or pathogen. Listen early next spring at night and hopefully you will hear them again!

-Naturalist Karie Wheaton