Closer My Bullfrog Unto Thee!

[Ken's Deputy 4,460]

Got Blue light bulbs on my shopping list!

[mackem 27,399]

1 hour ago, Ken's Deputy said:

Got Blue light bulbs on my shopping list!

I heard a tree frog out the front the other night, about 11pm,i said to my lady I need to find that, Where's the torch, there's a bloke who would like to see a photo of it, she rolled her eyes, I never went out looking

[Ken's Deputy 4,460]

14 minutes ago, mackem said:

I never went out looking

Bummer! I wonder what sort it was? You get Gray, out there. I especially like them!

[mackem 27,399]

7 minutes ago, Ken's Deputy said:

Bummer! I wonder what sort it was? You get Gray, out there. I especially like them!

[Ken's Deputy 4,460]

That looks like ranid's, mate.

[mackem 27,399]

3 minutes ago, Ken's Deputy said:

That looks like ranid's, mate.

That's not the one I heard the other night, that's just a bullfrog, it's getting hotter here, all you hear is frogs at night now when you walk near a pond or swamp. 

[Ken's Deputy 4,460]

That must be amazing! I think I've genuinely only heard a proper pond full of frogs, giving it what for, once in my life!

That was fukking freaky. Because, it was nothing like I'd expected to hear. I thought it was geese or something. Seems like one frog sounds like a frog. A Thousand of the fukkers sounds like something else entirely!

I'm wondering if much of what ye have there might be 'Peepers'? They seem to make the more characteristic sound people think of as Tree Frogs.

Now, they never fired me up. Left them in the shop. Look up a Gray though? Bit more like a small toad, with cool thighs. Perfect sort of tree frog to get my eye

I liked H. arborea too. ('European Tree Frog') Because I saw them on sale, as a kiddie. I believe there was (Is?) a naturalised colony of them, Dorset or Devon? One of the two, I think.

Bullfrogs ~ That sort ~ we used to run Search and Destroy on, when we were dealing with the crested newts. Had a license to touch the newts. Amazing, the unthinkable places we'd find them too!

 

[jukel123 8,571]

A colony of croaking  Natterjack toads at mating time is deafening.

Love Great Cresteds, miniature dinosaurs.

[Nicepix 5,650]

I have customers who have a half acre koi pond about 50 metres from their holiday home. The frogs are so loud at night that they activated the noise sensor on their burglar alarm. They couldn't sleep in summer because of the noise. John bought a co powered bb pistol and red dot sight and used to go out at night and pop them off around the pond. But it didn't have any affect on the noise levels. In desperation 2 years ago they asked if I could help. A few weeks later I took these frog munchers from a nearby farm pond and turned them out them in the koi pond.

When I make my fortnightly visits I walk around the pond. Normally there would be over twenty frogs leaping into the water in front of me. Within two months there were none. The house is currently being rented out to the owner's gardeners while they build their own house. They confirm that there is no frog noise now.

The bass also deal with the tadpoles and eat koi fry so the adult koi are getting bigger due to less competition from the little ones. 

 

 

Edited May 9, 2022 by Nicepix

[gnipper 6,532]

3 hours ago, mackem said:

Is that a bullfrog and 2 leopard frogs?

[mackem 27,399]

12 minutes ago, gnipper said:

Is that a bullfrog and 2 leopard frogs?

Yes mate

https://inaturalist.ca/check_lists/30362-Ottawa-Check-List

[mackem 27,399]

17 minutes ago, Nicepix said:

I have customers who have a half acre koi pond about 50 metres from their holiday home. The frogs are so loud at night that they activated the noise sensor on their burglar alarm. They couldn't sleep in summer because of the noise. John bought a co powered bb pistol and red dot sight and used to go out at night and pop them off around the pond. But it didn't have any affect on the noise levels. In desperation 2 years ago they asked if I could help. A few weeks later I took these frog munchers from a nearby farm pond and turned them out them in the koi pond.

When I make my fortnightly visits I walk around the pond. Normally there would be over twenty frogs leaping into the water in front of me. Within two months there were none. The house is currently being rented out to the owner's gardeners while they build their own house. They confirm that there is no frog noise now.

The bass also deal with the tadpoles and eat koi fry so the adult koi are getting bigger due to less competition from the little ones. 

 

 

Large mouth bass? 

[mackem 27,399]

8 hours ago, Ken's Deputy said:

That must be amazing! I think I've genuinely only heard a proper pond full of frogs, giving it what for, once in my life!

Just heard absolutely loads, walked through a swamp trail, real frog chorus as the sun was setting. 

[Nicepix 5,650]

9 hours ago, mackem said:

Large mouth bass? 

Yes. There is a 4 acre lake that was origjnally a farm reservoir. The farm has moved leaving the lake stuck out in the middle of nowhere. Nobody fishes it except me. How the bass got in is a mystery as it isn't connected to any river system. But neither is another customer's pond and that now has pumpkinseed fish in it.