Or is it a toad?
It can’t all be beautiful pictures. Though let us stop for a moment to admire the chickens in the weeds.
Every now and then we have to listen! And you know I love recording sounds.
I was out on my deck late last night recording these frog sounds. Or are they toad sounds? I have American Bullfrogs and toads – I am leaning towards the toads.
There are many. Have a listen to the audio.
The magic of living with nature. And having a bedroom with huge doors. Beautiful sounds of the frogs. All night long!!
What do you think?
I think this is a juvenile bullfrog but I am not sure.
We had a good downpour in the night – so I guess the flash drought is broken. (I read this term Flash Drought over at Jim’s star blog).
I really have to get out there and find that wrought iron furniture – now I wish I had not put it so far out in the field!
Have a lovely day!
Celi
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39 responses to “What frog sounds like this?”
Very excited about the new blog🤞. Love the sound of frogs/toads. Would love to hear them from my bedroom window. I do hear owls and barking deer though. Those weeds look like good chicken food, and those amazing skies you have captured. Good luck with the new venture.
Barking deer! I have never heard those.
So lovely. So “out in the country at night.” Beautiful frog. I think it must be a Prince. He came up when he heard your beautiful voice out there, Celi. (You could read on LibriVox! – in your spare time. Ha!)
What is Librivox? I love reading! I was listening back to one of my recordings from the other day and I put myself to sleep!!’
Books on tape. Its the free service & one that I always download for the long classics such as “Middlemarch” which I’m reading with a group & interspersing with listening when I’m doing chores or cooking. The readers all have such wonderful voices.
I think I might like that job.
I think you would be marvelous reading the classics with your beautiful voice, Celi. Amazon owns Audible, a books on tape service & there are others too reading more current books. I usually download the free LibriVox unless a very recent book calls to me such as Sarah Bakewell’s “At the Existentialist Cafe, Freedom, Being & Apricot Cocktails” (about De Beauvoir, Sartre, Camus & the gang in Paris) which I bought on CD from BrillianceAudio.com which may be a division of Audible.
My windows stay open all summer and on occasion I can hear the frogs here. We have these small bright green Pacific tree frogs that sing. Sometimes they will hide in the plant pots but usually hang out in lovely lush gardens and serenade at night.
Tree Frogs – they sound delightful – do tree frogs need water? Or is the humidity enough?
Humid environments are enough which is why they mainly stay to our heavier forested areas. We have a lot of trees here though so that helps them hang around among the moist ground and foliage unless it gets super hot.
Ok. I always wondered. Thank you!
We lost our frogs during last year’s drought, when we had a hosepipe ban for 7-months, and we couldn’t refill the pond.
Oh that is SO SAD.
Yes. It is.
Excited about the new “domain”…loved the toad/frog recording…&, as always, love the skies !!
The skies are huge and healing out here – my evening walks are always a real pleasure. Have a lovely day Virginia!
That definitely looks like a bullfrog. There was a lot of frogspawn in the pond here, but I think the ducks ate a most of it, or the tadpoles. One of my neighbours scooped some out and hatched the tadpoles indoors! I could hear the frogs at night too, but I think you’ve got more than I had.
You had me ROFL with the missing furniture!
I know!! I am (kind of) laughing too. Still trying to work out if there is a shot ( image) before I start hauling it all out! 😂
Ha ha – probably from a helicopter 😂
Yep, that sure looks like a teenaged bullfrog to me although they have a different call from the ones in your recording..Theirs is much lower in pitch and more of a croaking. I would say that thrill you’re hearing are Leopard frogs..But that’s just a guess..whatever they are it’s a beautiful night song.
Quite beautiful! Thank you! Chris
A lovely, peaceful sound to fall asleep to!
Isn’t it fascinating to hear the night sounds in different parts of the world? In Corfu recently, we heard the calls of the Eurasian Scops owl every night — even in the island’s capital Corfu Town, but more in the villages, especially up in the mountains. Some distant, some close — there was always one calling somewhere! It has a somewhat melancholy, one-note call but I loved hearing it.
Oh!! Thank you so much! I will follow this link right now. And yes! We are all listening to different sounds. Yet all together/
I wish we had frogs here 😦
Love the frog songs!
They are so restful.
We could also listen to the frogs on the farm (and the coyotes) as we lay in bed.
The frogs sound like Spring Peepers. That is a Bullfrog in the photos, but they don’t sound anything like what you recorded. There is a recording of a group of them down the page ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring_peeper ) and here ( https://toadsnfrogs.com/spring-peeper/ ). This link ( https://www.umesc.usgs.gov/terrestrial/amphibians/armi/frog_calls.html ) has audio of 11 frogs and/or toads.
We used to drive along one of the roads that edged the forest preserves in southern Cook County, Illinois and pull over to be enveloped by the sound of thousands of Spring Peepers and smell the crab apple blossoms after dark. I’ve never seem a Spring Peeper, they’re very tiny, but in their thousands the sound is overwhelming. None to hear where I’m at now.
Hmm – you may be right. I don’t see any tiny frogs around the pond but that does not mean they ate not there!
I will follow the audio to the frogs. Thank you so much!! Learning is the essence of life! Thank you for being my teacher.
I’ve learned a lot from you, too. Plus the joy of following the lives of all the critters you take care of.
They’re probably along the ditch that was a creek. They don’t seem to be where there are open bodies of water. More like tree frogs.
We have the same ‘trilling’ of tree frogs over here in New England. Lovely to listen to but sadly, a sign of global warming. We never had them in this part of the country when I was a child. Just too cold. They’ve moved north during the past decade or so along with all the dang ‘ticks’ as our planet and weather patterns continue to change.
Oh yes/ I do see/ we must adapt to these changes. The climate is not going to miraculously change back now: too late – ticks; nasty. Thankfully we do not have too many with all our birds.
Love the frog sounds!!
As do I!! They mean sleek to me.
love the frog or toad sounds – sounds like peace
Ah yes. Peace/