"Phyllis and Jim" wrote in message
ups.com...
Our pond was just warming up at night when this cold front came it.
Our Fowler's toads are doing their calling thing! Crickets on speed.
Once they get going, we are talking 5-20 at a time...just outside the
bedroom. It is sort of like a train...you get used to it. Too bad
your neighbors haven't.
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I'm wondering how Jan's neighbors tolerate the cicadas, birds and crickets
of summer?!?!?! Spring and summer are the time of life and life isn't
silent. How sad they can't just enjoy the sounds of nature. If I had
neighbors like that I'd be in deep trouble because we can't get rid of the
bullfrogs. For every one I haul off to the lake another shows up to take his
place. The only reason I remove them is they eat the smaller koi and
goldfish. The rest of the toads and froggies out there are music to my ears
(as long as they're not under my bedroom window.)
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RM....
Frugal ponding since 1995.
rec.ponder since late 1996.
My Pond & Aquarium Pages:
http://tinyurl.com/9do58
Zone 6. Middle TN USA
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On Mon, 9 Apr 2007 09:36:00 CST, "Reel McKoi"
wrote:

I'm wondering how Jan's neighbors tolerate the cicadas, birds and crickets
of summer?!?!?!

We don't have cicadas, so he lucked out there. If only we had them and they
came at the same time as frogs so they drown each other out..... They
probably put poison out for the crickets as they CAN be as loud as the
frogs. About the time they tell me to hush the crickets, I may have to use
some foul language I've learned here on usenet. ;-) ~ jan
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Zone 7a, SE Washington State
Ponds: www.jjspond.us