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I have a scene in my WIP where the MC, a fugitive, calls his wife. There's a tap on her phone. I had the Feds listening in identify it as a rural area by the sound of the tree frogs (peepers) in the background. It's set in New York's Hudson river valley, north of Poughkeepsie. A beta reader said peepers are only around in the spring, and this is set in early August. I could swear I've heard peepers all summer long, any time I pass a pond in the evening. (I'm in New England.) I did some research via google and read something that said they only call for 8 weeks in the spring, but found someone complaining about hearing them all summer. So, if not peepers, what can I use for background noises that will give my Feds a clue that my protagonist is not in the city? Does anybody else hear peepers in August (evening, just after dusk, near water?) If that noise is not peepers, what is it?