I know several local ponders who hate them as much as I do. Our pond is
just outside my daughter's bedroom window and the noise is enough to keep
anyone awake at night. I often find her camped out on the floor of her
brothers' room. What can be done to minimize the attraction of them. Our
pond is not very naturalistic, as it is just a rectangular koi pond with an
urn fountain in the middle.
Ann

On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 23:28:20 GMT, "Ann in Houston"
wrote:

I know several local ponders who hate them as much as I do. Our pond is
just outside my daughter's bedroom window and the noise is enough to keep
anyone awake at night. I often find her camped out on the floor of her
brothers' room. What can be done to minimize the attraction of them. Our
pond is not very naturalistic, as it is just a rectangular koi pond with an
urn fountain in the middle.
Ann

Everything i go through with my pond all started with a bowl of water
and a couple of ice cubes for the toads in the hot texas summer heat.
I love them and thus breed them now. Or hope to, i kinda accidently
killed some this (my first) year.

M room mate and I enjoy the sound because we know they are doing thier
nature thing in our backyard and that is just plain cool. But one
night my son came flying out of the bedroom, went out the back yard,
and yelled, "GET BACK IN THE POND!!!!!" So, apparently it can be
annoying to some

To keep them away, fill in the pond or build a brick wall around it.

??????

Get snakes, they love them.
--
RichToyBox
http://www.geocities.com/richtoybox/pondintro.html


"Ann in Houston" wrote in message
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I know several local ponders who hate them as much as I do. Our pond is
just outside my daughter's bedroom window and the noise is enough to keep
anyone awake at night. I often find her camped out on the floor of her
brothers' room. What can be done to minimize the attraction of them. Our
pond is not very naturalistic, as it is just a rectangular koi pond with
an
urn fountain in the middle.
Ann

"Ann in Houston" wrote in message
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I know several local ponders who hate them as much as I do. Our pond is
just outside my daughter's bedroom window and the noise is enough to keep
anyone awake at night. I often find her camped out on the floor of her
brothers' room. What can be done to minimize the attraction of them. Our
pond is not very naturalistic, as it is just a rectangular koi pond with
an
urn fountain in the middle.

Some people buy "White Noise" machines to make "surf" sounds to help them
sleep. The frog/toad chirping serves the same function for me. How about a
white noise machine in the bedroom of the disturbed sleeper to drown out the
frog noises.

On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 03:14:49 GMT, "bmuller"
wrote:


"Ann in Houston" wrote in message
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I know several local ponders who hate them as much as I do. Our pond is
just outside my daughter's bedroom window and the noise is enough to keep
anyone awake at night. I often find her camped out on the floor of her
brothers' room. What can be done to minimize the attraction of them. Our
pond is not very naturalistic, as it is just a rectangular koi pond with
an
urn fountain in the middle.

Some people buy "White Noise" machines to make "surf" sounds to help them
sleep. The frog/toad chirping serves the same function for me. How about a
white noise machine in the bedroom of the disturbed sleeper to drown out the
frog noises.


Fans and a/c window units are good for that, too.

We live in the woods, it's music to us at night. You certainly know the
change of seasons. They sit on the door steps at night, we really need to be
careful coming and going. Even my Chesapeake Bay Retriever carries them
around in his mouth to play with them. I noticed my fish today attacking a
frog in the pond. I guess they wanted to suck the algae of him, he didn't
care much for being lunch he held onto the lily pad for dear life. Reminded
me of an reenactment of Jaws.
"Ann in Houston" wrote in message
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I know several local ponders who hate them as much as I do. Our pond is
just outside my daughter's bedroom window and the noise is enough to keep
anyone awake at night. I often find her camped out on the floor of her
brothers' room. What can be done to minimize the attraction of them. Our
pond is not very naturalistic, as it is just a rectangular koi pond with
an
urn fountain in the middle.
Ann

We live in the woods, it's music to us at night. You certainly know the
change of seasons. They sit on the door steps at night, we really need to be
careful coming and going. Even my Chesapeake Bay Retriever carries them
around in his mouth to play with them. I noticed my fish today attacking a
frog in the pond. I guess they wanted to suck the algae of him, he didn't
care much for being lunch he held onto the lily pad for dear life. Reminded
me of an reenactment of Jaws.
"Ann in Houston" wrote in message
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I know several local ponders who hate them as much as I do. Our pond is
just outside my daughter's bedroom window and the noise is enough to keep
anyone awake at night. I often find her camped out on the floor of her
brothers' room. What can be done to minimize the attraction of them. Our
pond is not very naturalistic, as it is just a rectangular koi pond with
an
urn fountain in the middle.
Ann

My daughter uses a fan to drown out the noice. Her window is right by the
pond area.
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On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 03:14:49 GMT, "bmuller"
wrote:


"Ann in Houston" wrote in message
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I know several local ponders who hate them as much as I do. Our pond
is
just outside my daughter's bedroom window and the noise is enough to
keep
anyone awake at night. I often find her camped out on the floor of her
brothers' room. What can be done to minimize the attraction of them.
Our
pond is not very naturalistic, as it is just a rectangular koi pond
with
an
urn fountain in the middle.

Some people buy "White Noise" machines to make "surf" sounds to help them
sleep. The frog/toad chirping serves the same function for me. How about
a
white noise machine in the bedroom of the disturbed sleeper to drown out
the
frog noises.


Fans and a/c window units are good for that, too.

I appreciate the constructive suggestion. I knew a lot of people wouldn't
like to hear that some of us consider frogs to be the only "downside of
ponding". I wonder if people picture the trilling noise when I mention the
noise. This is more like a duck sitting in your window, quacking
insistently to come in. I swear they sound exaclty like ducks. Sometimes I
net and relocate them, but it is hard, and there are a lot of them. Oh,
well. Maybe they are eating our mostquitoes. We sure don't seem to have
many.
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"Ann in Houston" wrote in message
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I know several local ponders who hate them as much as I do. Our pond is
just outside my daughter's bedroom window and the noise is enough to
keep
anyone awake at night. I often find her camped out on the floor of her
brothers' room. What can be done to minimize the attraction of them.
Our
pond is not very naturalistic, as it is just a rectangular koi pond with
an
urn fountain in the middle.

Some people buy "White Noise" machines to make "surf" sounds to help them
sleep. The frog/toad chirping serves the same function for me. How about a
white noise machine in the bedroom of the disturbed sleeper to drown out
the
frog noises.

I love frogs there song puts us to sleep at night


http://community.webtv.net/rebeljoe/POND

I love frogs there song puts us to sleep at night


http://community.webtv.net/rebeljoe/POND

We've never had any that made any noise. I want to hear frogs. Of course,
I'm thinking of the nice peeping noises.

--
LN in NH (new gardener in zone 5)
http://photos.yahoo.com/lns_obsessed


"Ann in Houston" wrote in message
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I know several local ponders who hate them as much as I do. Our pond is
just outside my daughter's bedroom window and the noise is enough to keep
anyone awake at night. I often find her camped out on the floor of her
brothers' room. What can be done to minimize the attraction of them. Our
pond is not very naturalistic, as it is just a rectangular koi pond with
an
urn fountain in the middle.
Ann

We've never had any that made any noise. I want to hear frogs. Of course,
I'm thinking of the nice peeping noises.

--
LN in NH (new gardener in zone 5)
http://photos.yahoo.com/lns_obsessed


"Ann in Houston" wrote in message
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I know several local ponders who hate them as much as I do. Our pond is
just outside my daughter's bedroom window and the noise is enough to keep
anyone awake at night. I often find her camped out on the floor of her
brothers' room. What can be done to minimize the attraction of them. Our
pond is not very naturalistic, as it is just a rectangular koi pond with
an
urn fountain in the middle.
Ann

We've never had any that made any noise. I want to hear frogs. Of course,
I'm thinking of the nice peeping noises.

--
LN in NH (new gardener in zone 5)
http://photos.yahoo.com/lns_obsessed


"Ann in Houston" wrote in message
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I know several local ponders who hate them as much as I do. Our pond is
just outside my daughter's bedroom window and the noise is enough to keep
anyone awake at night. I often find her camped out on the floor of her
brothers' room. What can be done to minimize the attraction of them. Our
pond is not very naturalistic, as it is just a rectangular koi pond with
an
urn fountain in the middle.
Ann

We've never had any that made any noise. I want to hear frogs. Of course,
I'm thinking of the nice peeping noises.

--
LN in NH (new gardener in zone 5)
http://photos.yahoo.com/lns_obsessed


"Ann in Houston" wrote in message
news
I know several local ponders who hate them as much as I do. Our pond is
just outside my daughter's bedroom window and the noise is enough to keep
anyone awake at night. I often find her camped out on the floor of her
brothers' room. What can be done to minimize the attraction of them. Our
pond is not very naturalistic, as it is just a rectangular koi pond with
an
urn fountain in the middle.
Ann