#frog calling

[markscherz]

Hey what have you been doing lately?

On my way home from D&D this evening, I stopped by a nearby pond to film this, which I will be using in a lecture on Danish amphibians tomorrow morning.

It’s a phenomenally busy time with lots of deadlines and teaching, so I’m very behind on answering asks, as well as basically everything, but it will pass by the end of June and I’ll be able to breathe again!

[thats-frogs-babey]

The toads were so loud yesterday!

[commonwandererillustrations]

Malabar gliding frog calling.

[moo-bop]

Here are my marvelous descriptions of the frog calls of Maryland:

Eastern Spadefoot: ERRRRRR ERRRRR ERRRRR

American Toad: Long shrill call

Fowlers Toad: murder unpleasant

Cricket: Marbles being rattled together

Copes Gray Treefrog: shorter less musical call,

Gray Treefrog: monkey, longer more musical than copes, like the noise you make with throat gargle but more shrill

Green Treefrog: geese, fucking annoying

Barking Treefrog: short, bark

Spring Peeper: sounds like a peeper, peep peep peep, all together sounds like what you would usually hear in summer

Bee boop beep

NJ chorus frog: running fingers down metal cone

Narrow mouth: fucking silence of the lambs, baaaaa what nightmares are made out of

Bullfrog: lightsaber woom wooom woooam wo

Green frog: plucking a banjo bler bler bler, loose strings

Pickerel: snoring, long drawn out

Southern Leopard: maniacal laughter, legitimately frightening, clicking sound together

Wood: oh no I don’t like this one either, drowning ducks? Goats, pain

Carpenter: galloping, carpenter like hammer nailing and shhit