very funny now to find froggies on the windows at night getting bugs.
i can now retire the list of strange window noise suspects over the years and put most of them down as tree froggies.
i'm glad to see them about. a week ago there was one on the patio door that was so loud that i thought it was in the house. got up to find it and scoot it outside, but it wasn't to be found. got quiet.
a few days later i hear a noise on the window and look up to see a silouette of a froggie as it was going after bugs. didn't get a picture.
sometimes i've thought it was bats getting moths or bugs, other times i thought it was raccoons playing around, but i've never been able to catch the noise maker in the act before.
after finding the tree froggie on the roof last year the clue plane finally buzzed me enough and i'm convinced. i don't know where they hide out during the day. Ma said she had one in the lid of the propane tank, but i didn't get a chance to see it. no picture.
tonight there was one on the window above the kitchen sink. couldn't get a picture of that one either. i tried. they have good night vision. it went away once i approached with the camera.
i'm happy with what i'm doing here to make more spaces for frogs, but as of yet i haven't been able to get the population of toads to increase. no lack of bugs, but a definite lack of quiet water for egg laying, hatching and tadpoles. plus we do have plenty of snakes about. wish the snakes would eat the chipmunks, but when you are trying to build a web of life you sometimes don't get to say exactly what eats what.
songbird