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the constant frog calling is a grey treefrog (northern) the screechy sound is a fowlers toad.Bill will be offline sometime.he had a computer crash and will not be able to get another computer for awhile.he may sporadically post from work but will not be able to do pics and sound files from...

Do we have any trappers on the forum?The state offers permit to trap beaver in season.That will solve your problem,get them out of there.You will never wear them out,as long as they are there they will win.I believe they actually enjoy the work.Remove the beavers and hopefully none will choose...

I have drank out of a lot of streams and have never had any bad effects but I know where the streams come from.I never drink from a stream that passes any cultivated fields are road or houses upstream ,in other words i drink from small streams that have just came up out of the aquifer recnetly...

I can say from experience they make excellent swimming holes once abandoned for awhile.When their still in use or recently abandoned there is definitely something in the water that burns the eyes but after a couple years of abandonement this disappears and the water is fine.As these blue holes...

I have often seen clouds of skeeters hovering around turtles and wondered the same.they must have a shot at blood or you'd think they'd go away.then again they have brains the size of an amoeba/ Al

I remember when the president came on he wiped out every channel.I remember being stressed out and running around in circles yelling " I"m gonna miss flipper"! Al

Mudboy, Just because advanced folks like Guy and I remember having only three good channels on the tv and having to actually get up to change channels does not make us old,it makes us "historically aware". Al

I have been in the swamp northeast of the spung visible in the photo across the power lines from your spung but have never been to the spung.the swamp visible in photo is quite the formidable swamp and quite spung like itself.Guy almost killed me in it I believe it was last summer :-) there was...

Jerseyman Cope's has a treefrog named after himas well.Cope's grey treefrog (Hylachrysocelis) also known as the Southern Grey Treefrog which is listed as "state endangered as is the Pine Barrens treefrog (Hyla andersoni) the Norther Grey's whip recorde this year are much more common.He did...

By the way norther greys and southern greys are indistinguishable by sight but like Americans are distinguishable by sight only unlike people I prefer the northerns song though the southern song excites me more since their much more rare here and less likely to be happened upon. Al

Mudboy The Boxie can survive quite sometime upside down.They can breathe just fine and I presume they could live that way till thirst,hunger or exposure to either heat or cold killed them but no fear of this happening.boxies have necks that are long enough and strong enough to easily flip...

Guy, Did you see what I meant about the frogs will lure you in and then start playing games with you? You'll get close to one and then he'll shut up and you'll get tired of waiting and then another will call and you'll head towards him only to repeat the scenario.I believe they have quite a...

I was about 10 when my dad taught me how to shoot a 12 gauge.he kept handing 2.5 inch magnums and i was doing good.then he slipped me a different colored shell that felt a little heavier and he sorta grinned when he did it.when i pulled the trigger i ended up with my glasses cockeyed and a...

Tribute to Jimbo, Al

all I can say is that Jim wanted me badly to take him several places I knew his back could just not handle and I never took Him because I did not want to really mess him up.Places i almost got hurt going to.He now does not have to worry about a bad back.Jim if you have the internet where you are...

Jeff, I really did not see a sign but there are two roads going in maybe 40 ft apart.i took the smaller road in to the north and came out the larger road to the south so perhaps the sign was over the larger road and i didn't see it over my shoulder which would've been too late anyway.I have...

whips can always be added in by the Audaciuos Audacity.Don't feel bad ,not many get excited over stones or snakes either....to each their own. ALfalfa

Jim is one tough old geezer! He folloered me through knee deep muck out to thompsons beach,we waded through chest high briars to see stones.Had to stop occasionally to give his bad back a break and then he plowed on.we came to mud puddles that i refused to drive my four wheel beast through,Jim...

Jeff i was exactly across the river from your first pic l;ast thursday.I was sitting on that log that shows in your pic.you can drive to that side from 563.my truck was parked right behind that pushed over cedar tree where i was sitting.There are some real nice islands in that area as you have...

This is one of yer best! Not only did I hear an assortment of frogs and the whipoorwill but I think I heard a whipoorbill too about a third of the way through.I have downloaded this and think I may have the Audacity to Ackermanize this MP3 clip.This is great.Doesn't take up space on the site but...