Date: 2008-05-01 10:35 Subject: frog calls Security: Public Tags: frogs

Okay, now I'm going nuts.  I had a nice post written about crows nesting in the Chicago area, and then got derailed onto cricket frogs, and tried to find you a recording of cricket frogs only to realize that the frogs I've been calling cricket may actually be chorus frogs.  Then I blew the post away by accident.  How embarrassing.  So here are some URLs for some cool frog call recordings.  Meanwhile I'm trying to find out what frog I'm thinking of!

The frog I want sounds like "a thumb being dragged across the teeth of a comb."  In thousands, their call is quite overwhelming.

And yet this one, a Mississippi version, is some kind of mutant.  Certainly not my frog.

Ooo, here's a whole bunch of good frogs and toads.    

...And BINGO.  Mine are apparently upland chorus frogs, and wowee.  Imagine a few thousand of them singing in a schvamp.  They're almost impossible to see, even when you're standing almost on top of them.  About the size of a dime.  When they puff themselves up to sing, they're the size of two dimes.

I researched toad calls when I was writing THE VELVET CHAIR (coming May 20 to a store near you!)  (there's the commercial,  not too shabby eh?).  Now you get to wonder where the heck the toad calls come in.

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