You might think the sounds you hear coming from wetlands are the distant quacking of ducks. You’d be wrong. Or you might think the evening chorus of chirping along the creek is produced by a flock of ...

Please listen to the attached audio clip. For the last few nights a bird has been chirping in our backyard, but since it’s dark outside we can never seem to find it. We even tried using the bird sound ...

The Peeper: easy to hear, harder to spot. It’s an unmistakable sound. One that elicits memories, sights and scents of events long ago. It recalls the joy of youth, the possibility of a spring evening.

> To listen, go to bostonglobe.com/soundtrack. At twilight, we find the pond we’re looking for and park the car, wondering whether we’ll hear anything. I’ve ...

The Peeper: easy to hear, harder to spot. It’s an unmistakable sound. One that elicits memories, sights and scents of events long ago. It recalls the joy of youth, the possibility of a spring evening.