I live up on a ridge in the heavily wooded hills of Middle Tennessee. I have a 'frog pond' I build last year and tonight we have our first 'spring peeper' in the pond singing away.

Spring had sprung!!



We get:
Salamanders
Green Frogs
Wood Frogs
American Toads
Copes Grey Treefrogs
Eastern Narrow-mouthed Toads
Chorus Frogs

Sometimes the noise is surprisingly loud, I have counted well over 50 treefrogs in the pond on some nights last Summer and have even recorded the cacophonic sound.


[there is a subtle political message in all this]

Cool Tennessee amphibian site with wave files.


http://www.state.tn.us/twra/tamp/frogs.html

ahh spring... when the smell of jetfuel and the roar of engines fill the air again

Sounds like the sound of heaven. Now we just need a little bit whiskey and some home-made wine.

Oh, we have our first tadpoles of the season this morning!

Spring is much cooler [and wetter] this year than last, I hope Summer follows the same trend.

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“Race is an issue that I believe this nation cannot afford to ignore right now.” --Barack Obama

When I was a child you could hear crickets and frogs around here too, well, today you can hear cars and air planes and crickets and frogs are on the brink of extinction.

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I've heard of those.

Mrs.BillyBob and I just got back from sitting at the edge of our pond with a flashlight. We counted over 20 American toads singing away, 3 'couples' and on the way back to our house we saw 4 more toads making their way to the pond. I picked them up and gave them a free ride to the water.

We have the windows open, the sound is amazing.

Here is an audio clip, imagine this times 20:


http://www.state.tn.us/twra/tamp/amtoad.wav

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“Race is an issue that I believe this nation cannot afford to ignore right now.” --Barack Obama

Last summer we vacationed over in Tennessee and South Carolina (I call it the eastern south). So many trees! I didn't like being surrounded by trees. I'm used to being able to see for miles and miles. We did stay in a nice cabin though... I figured ya'll would have a major insect problem what with all the greenery but Texas has you beat with our huge mosquitos etc.

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I must have a couple thousand trees on my 5 acre lot and about 200 acres of woods surrounds that. Because of all the frogs, toads and bats, we don't have a mosquito problem at all!

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“Race is an issue that I believe this nation cannot afford to ignore right now.” --Barack Obama