Herp brains? :) Can anyone identify this frog by its call?

[ascariafraser]

Hi all! I recently moved into a house on a lake in the Pine Barrens, from the mountains of Pennsylvania. We have a cacophany outside and I have a handle on most id's but I don't know this little guy. At the tail end of the video -- I recorded this last night around 1 am (from my phone so you might have to turn your volume up).

thanks!

 

[tsqurd]

Maybe it's on my end, but had a hard time hearing anything. Only thing I could hear sounded like a whip-poor-will, which is a bird.

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Eastern_Whip-poor-will/sounds

 

[ascariafraser]

Maybe it's on my end, but had a hard time hearing anything. Only thing I could hear sounded like a whip-poor-will, which is a bird.

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Eastern_Whip-poor-will/sounds

Hi! Thanks! No, it's a clicking ... almost as if someone has two wooden hollow sticks with ridges on them and they are rubbing them together. (This is an actual musical instrument that I cannot recall the name of) ... I will try another bit. Thanks! I know. It sounds great on my phone and as soon as I upload anything the audio goes down the tubes.

 

[smoke_jumper]

Does it sound like this?

If so that's carpenter frogs.

 

[ascariafraser]

EXACTLY! Thank you.

 

[smoke_jumper]

I thought I heard a Bull Frog in there too, but I didn't think you were talking about him.

 

[manumuskin]

I hear a chorus frog through the whole recording and a whipoorwill the latter half and it sounds like you bumped the mic at the very end.

 

[Teegate]

It is a carpenter frog for sure as smoke_jumper correctly identified.

 

[manumuskin]

It is a carpenter frog for sure as smoke_jumper correct identified.

Are you saying the frog heard all the way through is a carpenter? If so I"d disagree with that or are you saying somewhere in the background you hear a carpenter which I do not but may be missing it.The Chorus frog actually starts out sounding like a cricket frog but sounds more chorus like as the video moves on. I hear no hammering at all.Could you give me the second mark where it occurs.

 

[smoke_jumper]

Are you saying the frog heard all the way through is a carpenter? If so I"d disagree with that or are you saying somewhere in the background you hear a carpenter which I do not but may be missing it.The Chorus frog actually starts out sounding like a cricket frog but sounds more chorus like as the video moves on. I hear no hammering at all.Could you give me the second mark where it occurs.

I hear it around the 2 second mark and 23 second. I also hear the bull frog around the 2-5 second. I thought the same as you I do hear the cricket/chorus frog during the entire length. Going by her her description I focused on the end of the video.
I might add that I heard this when I played it back on my I phone. Driving home yesterday it was hooked up to my blue tooth in my car. I figured I could hear it better through the car speakers. I was wrong, I could only hear the wipperwill and the cricket/chorus frog. I imagine we are all hearing it differently depending what we're listening through.

 

[tsqurd]

I imagine we are all hearing it differently depending what we're listening through.

I think you are right, I can still only hear the whip poor will, and just barely at that.

The DEP has a pretty good section on herps on their website, including recordings of frog and toad calls: http://www.state.nj.us/dep/fgw/ensp/fieldguide_herps.htm

 

[NJChileHead]

Hi Ascariafraser, congratulations on the move! What I believe that you are hearing are Northern cricket frogs (Acris crepitans). Carpenter frogs have a deeper and more echoing "pa-tuck!" to them, and chorus frogs have a more sustained, rising call with a distinct clicking similar to running your fingernail up the teeth of comb.

 

[Teegate]

The frog in question I believe starts at 21 seconds. You need full volume. I say it sounds like a carpenter.

 

[NJChileHead]

You're right Teegate, I did hear a carpenter frog at the 21 second mark after replaying it.

 

[Teegate]

You're right Teegate, I did hear a carpenter frog at the 21 second mark after replaying it.

I know my hearing is bad so I am glad you confirmed it is not that bad.

 

[smoke_jumper]

I was starting to thing I was hearing things.

 

[manumuskin]

Yes Chilehead I"d agree they are cricket frogs after relistening to it.They sounded like crickets in the beginning and then faded to a chrus like sound but now I think their cricket all the way through.And at 21 seconds I think I do hear one hammer tap from a carpenter but it's at the edge of my hearing range which isn't as good as it used to be before putting the last six years in a glass factory.My hearing tests every year show a high range hearing loss.

 

[dragoncjo]

There are bullfrogs in the begginning, whipporwhils the clicking is cricket frogs and the noise that you think are carpenters mat also be wood frogs.

 

[dragoncjo]

I think there are also leopard frogs in the beginning, its hard we have alot of frogs here.

 

[NJChileHead]

There are bullfrogs in the begginning, whipporwhils the clicking is cricket frogs and the noise that you think are carpenters mat also be wood frogs.

Hey Dragon, wouldn't wood frogs be long done with their breeding season? My experience has been that their breeding activity is outright kaput by the second week of April at the very latest (most of the time by the end of March, at least up here).

Agree on the possibility of a leopard frog in the beginning. I've heard territorial calls from carpenter frogs that sounded like these too.

We have to get Whippoorbill out there with his recorder!