Spring and Summer are the times to look for snakes, turtles and lizards - they are plentiful! River Cooters bask on the rocks and Brown Watersnakes are common along the shoreline in late Spring and Summer. Listen to the Peepers and Chorus frogs sing at the Wetlands in early Spring or hear the toads sing during the warm rains of summer. Lizards bask on the stone steps around Park Headquarters in the summer. Riverside Drive near the Pony Pasture is closed to automobiles on rainy nights in late winter for the protection of mating Spotted Salamanders.