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Green Tree frogs
I live in the south and have been kept awake several nights because of these
treefrogs. I also have a large Koi pond. I thought they were just reg. frogs at first and was relocating some of the frogs to a natural pond a couple miles up the road to cut down on noise. At night about 845 that loud frog noise will start up again. Flash light in hand I finally seen them. Its not the frogs I thought it was. These are tiny green treefrogs. Theres quite a few out there. I tried to catch some but their to fast and at night you can't see them. They hide during the day. I can't find them. They will croke all night though. I live in a subdivision also and am worried the neighbors are going to start complaining about the noise. Any suggestions? Can the neighbors file a complaint about this. Its really loud. Here is the sound that the frogs make, times it several times. It actually hurts your ears out by the pond. http://www.naturesound.com/frogs/pages/grntfg.html |
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"Priscilla McCullough" wrote in message ... I live in the south and have been kept awake several nights because of these treefrogs. I also have a large Koi pond. I thought they were just reg. frogs at first and was relocating some of the frogs to a natural pond a couple miles up the road to cut down on noise. At night about 845 that loud frog noise will start up again. Flash light in hand I finally seen them. Its not the frogs I thought it was. These are tiny green treefrogs. Theres quite a few out there. I tried to catch some but their to fast and at night you can't see them. They hide during the day. I can't find them. They will croke all night though. I live in a subdivision also and am worried the neighbors are going to start complaining about the noise. Any suggestions? Can the neighbors file a complaint about this. Its really loud. Here is the sound that the frogs make, times it several times. It actually hurts your ears out by the pond. http://www.naturesound.com/frogs/pages/grntfg.html ===================== I have nothing to play a RAM (?) file so couldn't listen to it. Yes, neighbors can file complaints if the frogs start to drive them batty and keep them awake at night - in most areas. Were the frogs there before your pond, or did your pond bring the frogs? I don't think anyone would be too thrilled to be kept awake at night by any kind of noise........ -- McKoi.... the frugal ponder... EVERYONE: "Please check people's headers for forgeries before flushing." NAMES ARE BEING FORGED. Do not feed the trolls. ~~~ }((((o ~~~ }{{{{o ~~~ }(((((o |
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One man's pleasure is another man's poison.
I would love to sleep to that sound. Don't get anything like that here in Canada . Priscilla McCullough wrote: I live in the south and have been kept awake several nights because of these treefrogs. I also have a large Koi pond. I thought they were just reg. frogs at first and was relocating some of the frogs to a natural pond a couple miles up the road to cut down on noise. At night about 845 that loud frog noise will start up again. Flash light in hand I finally seen them. Its not the frogs I thought it was. These are tiny green treefrogs. Theres quite a few out there. I tried to catch some but their to fast and at night you can't see them. They hide during the day. I can't find them. They will croke all night though. I live in a subdivision also and am worried the neighbors are going to start complaining about the noise. Any suggestions? Can the neighbors file a complaint about this. Its really loud. Here is the sound that the frogs make, times it several times. It actually hurts your ears out by the pond. http://www.naturesound.com/frogs/pages/grntfg.html |
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That's a hard question. And it will depend on
your city attorney. But here in my town we had the city attorney write a ponder to get rid of her frogs. The breeding cycle for some frogs can be short. Have you looked them up on the web to learn more about them? Enter your state, the words native amphibians on google.com. Know thine enemy. If your neighbors do complain you could sponsor a frog catching party. Have you tried spotlighting them with a flashlight? You get the frog dazzled with the light and have someone prod them from behind so they jump into a fairly close meshed sport fishing net (one that has a deep dip in it as compared to a flatter koi net). Twist the net, to tangle the frog up, bring the net in, turn it so the frog is on his back (should stop struggling) untangle frog, drop in covered bucket with an inch of pond water. A group of ten year old boys are really good at this. You could try netting the pond so they can't get to the water and hope they get the hint. Predators. Hog nosed snakes love frogs. Water snakes and garter snakes love frogs. Most humans don't love snakes but when you are desperate. Cats love to hunt frogs. Herons enjoy them (herons also enjoy your fish...) Let us know what hapens as this is an annual question that appears on rec.ponds. kathy :-) www.blogfromthebog.com this week ~ introducing Miss Lily, a painted turtle Pond 101 page for new pond keepers ~ http://hometown.aol.com/ka30p/myhomepage/garden.html |
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WOW! Its saids Green Treefrogs may be heard calling anytime from March to
October in the South. Green Treefrogs congregate in large choruses of several hundred. "kathy" wrote in message oups.com... That's a hard question. And it will depend on your city attorney. But here in my town we had the city attorney write a ponder to get rid of her frogs. The breeding cycle for some frogs can be short. Have you looked them up on the web to learn more about them? Enter your state, the words native amphibians on google.com. Know thine enemy. If your neighbors do complain you could sponsor a frog catching party. Have you tried spotlighting them with a flashlight? You get the frog dazzled with the light and have someone prod them from behind so they jump into a fairly close meshed sport fishing net (one that has a deep dip in it as compared to a flatter koi net). Twist the net, to tangle the frog up, bring the net in, turn it so the frog is on his back (should stop struggling) untangle frog, drop in covered bucket with an inch of pond water. A group of ten year old boys are really good at this. You could try netting the pond so they can't get to the water and hope they get the hint. Predators. Hog nosed snakes love frogs. Water snakes and garter snakes love frogs. Most humans don't love snakes but when you are desperate. Cats love to hunt frogs. Herons enjoy them (herons also enjoy your fish...) Let us know what hapens as this is an annual question that appears on rec.ponds. kathy :-) www.blogfromthebog.com this week ~ introducing Miss Lily, a painted turtle Pond 101 page for new pond keepers ~ http://hometown.aol.com/ka30p/myhomepage/garden.html |
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Yes I had some but not as many as I do now.
"Reel Mckoi" wrote in message ... "Priscilla McCullough" wrote in message ... I live in the south and have been kept awake several nights because of these treefrogs. I also have a large Koi pond. I thought they were just reg. frogs at first and was relocating some of the frogs to a natural pond a couple miles up the road to cut down on noise. At night about 845 that loud frog noise will start up again. Flash light in hand I finally seen them. Its not the frogs I thought it was. These are tiny green treefrogs. Theres quite a few out there. I tried to catch some but their to fast and at night you can't see them. They hide during the day. I can't find them. They will croke all night though. I live in a subdivision also and am worried the neighbors are going to start complaining about the noise. Any suggestions? Can the neighbors file a complaint about this. Its really loud. Here is the sound that the frogs make, times it several times. It actually hurts your ears out by the pond. http://www.naturesound.com/frogs/pages/grntfg.html ===================== I have nothing to play a RAM (?) file so couldn't listen to it. Yes, neighbors can file complaints if the frogs start to drive them batty and keep them awake at night - in most areas. Were the frogs there before your pond, or did your pond bring the frogs? I don't think anyone would be too thrilled to be kept awake at night by any kind of noise........ -- McKoi.... the frugal ponder... EVERYONE: "Please check people's headers for forgeries before flushing." NAMES ARE BEING FORGED. Do not feed the trolls. ~~~ }((((o ~~~ }{{{{o ~~~ }(((((o |
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On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 17:26:25 -0400, "Priscilla McCullough" wrote:
I live in the south and have been kept awake several nights because of these treefrogs. I'm the ponder K30 spoke of with the City Attorney sending me a letter. I was able to catch many of my males, but it didn't help, more just came and replaced them. I was so ticked that someone in my neighborhood would go to the authorities first before contacting me, even anonymously, that I wrote a letter to those who would most likely have written it. Out of 15 letters I got 12 positive responses that they liked the frogs (personally I love the frogs and sleep wonderfully as their call is white noise to me, not to mention that all is well out where they are). Of the 3 that didn't respond, 2 probably didn't even know I had frogs, but 1 is very obvious, straight across the street and new to the neighborhood. My letter informed them about the life cycle, that they were a native species (just like our squirrels, birds, skunks, raccoons, crickets..... ). That I had reduced the number (there were a couple of nights of silence, so if they were listening, they couldn't have missed that) but if there were any further problems to contact me directly. A note on my door or by e-mail as I gave my E-address. I also sent the letter to the CA. The CA e-mailed me back thanking me for my efforts. A few weeks went by and the numbers were climbing again, I would go out and catch them, but they were getting too smart for me, diving deep. I E-ed the CA to see if "these people" had complained again, but they hadn't received anything and I never heard anything more. Now I'm down to just a couple as their season is ending, though I must say, I was amazed to find a fresh sac of eggs just the other day. These got move to a tub before their brethren decided to have eggs for breakfast. My suggestion, changing one's attitude may be easier than controlling the frogs. Frog croaking is not noise it is nature. When they are croaking nothing bad is roaming around your yard. If desperate, foam ear plugs work wonders, my husband, 2 inches away, snores louder than the frogs can croak outside, so I have to plug the right ear so I can hear the frogs with my left. ~ jan See my lily pond, built for the tree frogs: www.jjspond.us ~Keep 'em Wet!~ Tri-Cities WA Zone 7a To e-mail see website |
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Any suggestions? Can the neighbors file a complaint about this. Its
really loud. We love our tree frogs. Tell your neighbors that they could just fire up their gas weed eaters and leaf blowers and drown out the sound of the frogs. As far as your pond attracting the tree frogs. We have them all over around here, there are lots of trees, they just come to our pond to breed. We hear them singing all around at night, not anywhere near the pond. Ron in NC |
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you are so predictible.. And you don't know what you're talking about. I am NOT Carol. Ron in NC |
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"Priscilla McCullough" wrote in message ... WOW! Its saids Green Treefrogs may be heard calling anytime from March to October in the South. Green Treefrogs congregate in large choruses of several hundred. ===================== We have Treefrogs on our windows every night. They call for awhile, then quiet down and go after the bugs on the windows. We also have regular green frogs in our ponds that call and call and call.... but all quiet down by 1:30 to 2 AM. If I close my bedroom windows I don't hear them. The bullfrogs like our neighbors stock pond for some reason, so when they're calling to breed they're usually over there. For some reason we have a lot less frogs and pollywogs this year than in years past. -- McKoi.... the frugal ponder... EVERYONE: "Please check people's headers for forgeries before flushing." NAMES ARE BEING FORGED. Do not feed the trolls. ~~~ }((((o ~~~ }{{{{o ~~~ }(((((o |
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We love our tree frogs.
Tell your neighbors that they could just fire up their gas weed eaters and leaf blowers and drown out the sound of the frogs. ron in NC Oh YES!!!! Just a couple of weeks ago, during a beautiful, comfortable temperature-wise day, when you can have the windows open and really enjoy the nice sounds of the neighborhood and the waterfall, a neighbor did that. Not the one who complained, but right across from them. All weekend long, it was a professional service, so we're talking commercial LOUD trimmers and blowers. All I could do was chuckle, "and they complained about frogs" surely this is worst. ~ jan ~Power to the Porg, Flow On!~ |
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CanadianCowboy wrote:
One man's pleasure is another man's poison. I would love to sleep to that sound. Don't get anything like that here in Canada . Not "there" in Canada :-) I used to get them in S. Ontario (Tree Frogs, anyway, I don't recall exactly which one - but I think Green Tree Frogs), and I certainly have tree frogs here on the Nova Scotia coast. I haven't seen them to verify that they're the same frog we had in Ontario, but I heard them calling up until I went on vacation a couple of weeks ago. I only heard a couple of late spring peepers when I got home yesterday, though, so I don't know if I still have the tree frogs. -- derek |
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Priscilla McCullough wrote:
Yes I had some but not as many as I do now. "Reel Mckoi" wrote in message ... "Priscilla McCullough" wrote in message ... I live in the south and have been kept awake several nights because of these treefrogs. I also have a large Koi pond. I thought they were just reg. frogs at first and was relocating some of the frogs to a natural pond a couple miles up the road to cut down on noise. At night about 845 that loud frog noise will start up again. Flash light in hand I finally seen them. Its not the frogs I thought it was. These are tiny green treefrogs. Theres quite a few out there. I tried to catch some but their to fast and at night you can't see them. They hide during the day. I can't find them. They will croke all night though. I live in a subdivision also and am worried the neighbors are going to start complaining about the noise. Any suggestions? Can the neighbors file a complaint about this. Its really loud. Here is the sound that the frogs make, times it several times. It actually hurts your ears out by the pond. http://www.naturesound.com/frogs/pages/grntfg.html ===================== I have nothing to play a RAM (?) file so couldn't listen to it. Yes, neighbors can file complaints if the frogs start to drive them batty and keep them awake at night - in most areas. Were the frogs there before your pond, or did your pond bring the frogs? I don't think anyone would be too thrilled to be kept awake at night by any kind of noise........ -- McKoi.... the frugal ponder... EVERYONE: "Please check people's headers for forgeries before flushing." NAMES ARE BEING FORGED. Do not feed the trolls. ~~~ }((((o ~~~ }{{{{o ~~~ }(((((o Carol Can be reported at: Tell Dimitry that NYM Shifting to bypass filters goes against netiquette here is carol Id at x-privat.org Organization: X-Privat NNTP Server - http://www.x-privat.org X-Authenticated-User: $$wp88bm267170ku3euk728nz X-Info: More info http://www.x-privat.org/infonews.php |
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Ron Lawrence KC4YOY wrote:
Any suggestions? Can the neighbors file a complaint about this. Its really loud. We love our tree frogs. Tell your neighbors that they could just fire up their gas weed eaters and leaf blowers and drown out the sound of the frogs. As far as your pond attracting the tree frogs. We have them all over around here, there are lots of trees, they just come to our pond to breed. We hear them singing all around at night, not anywhere near the pond. Ron in NC Carol Can be reported at: Tell Dimitry that NYM Shifting to bypass filters goes against netiquette here is carol Id at x-privat.org Organization: X-Privat NNTP Server - http://www.x-privat.org X-Authenticated-User: $$wp88bm267170ku3euk728nz X-Info: More info http://www.x-privat.org/infonews.php |
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~ janj JJsPond.us wrote:
On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 17:26:25 -0400, "Priscilla McCullough" wrote: I live in the south and have been kept awake several nights because of these treefrogs. I'm the ponder K30 spoke of with the City Attorney sending me a letter. I was able to catch many of my males, but it didn't help, more just came and replaced them. I was so ticked that someone in my neighborhood would go to the authorities first before contacting me, even anonymously, that I wrote a letter to those who would most likely have written it. Out of 15 letters I got 12 positive responses that they liked the frogs (personally I love the frogs and sleep wonderfully as their call is white noise to me, not to mention that all is well out where they are). Of the 3 that didn't respond, 2 probably didn't even know I had frogs, but 1 is very obvious, straight across the street and new to the neighborhood. My letter informed them about the life cycle, that they were a native species (just like our squirrels, birds, skunks, raccoons, crickets..... ). That I had reduced the number (there were a couple of nights of silence, so if they were listening, they couldn't have missed that) but if there were any further problems to contact me directly. A note on my door or by e-mail as I gave my E-address. I also sent the letter to the CA. The CA e-mailed me back thanking me for my efforts. A few weeks went by and the numbers were climbing again, I would go out and catch them, but they were getting too smart for me, diving deep. I E-ed the CA to see if "these people" had complained again, but they hadn't received anything and I never heard anything more. Now I'm down to just a couple as their season is ending, though I must say, I was amazed to find a fresh sac of eggs just the other day. These got move to a tub before their brethren decided to have eggs for breakfast. My suggestion, changing one's attitude may be easier than controlling the frogs. Frog croaking is not noise it is nature. When they are croaking nothing bad is roaming around your yard. If desperate, foam ear plugs work wonders, my husband, 2 inches away, snores louder than the frogs can croak outside, so I have to plug the right ear so I can hear the frogs with my left. ~ jan See my lily pond, built for the tree frogs: www.jjspond.us ~Keep 'em Wet!~ Tri-Cities WA Zone 7a To e-mail see website Carol Can be reported at: Tell Dimitry that NYM Shifting to bypass filters goes against netiquette here is carol Id at x-privat.org Organization: X-Privat NNTP Server - http://www.x-privat.org X-Authenticated-User: $$wp88bm267170ku3euk728nz X-Info: More info http://www.x-privat.org/infonews.php |
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