My yard at night

here is a video of my yard at night. more like an audio becasue it is very dark. there was cloud cover last night so there was no moon or star light. living in the middle of nowhere it gets very dark. no lights from buildings or street lights. what you hear are all the night critters talking to each other. if you look real real close you may see the occasional firefly. very hard to see. a pinpoint size moving flash of light. at the end you here some fireworks going off in the distance. maybe a mile away.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_4h4AJ_vWA

You have a bunch of tree toads. Sounds tropical.

BMG wrote:

You have a bunch of tree toads. Sounds tropical.

i don't know what they are. some kind of bugs. i took another one last night looking towards the pond. you can hear the frogs there

they're gonna have to try and keep it down ...LOL ...sounded like a child's train set

KK wrote:

BMG wrote:

You have a bunch of tree toads. Sounds tropical.

i don't know what they are. some kind of bugs. i took another one last night looking towards the pond. you can hear the frogs there

I recognized the sound. We have tree toads by the millions here in the south. They are real cute. They look like regular toads but they are tiny enough to fit in a thimble.

c/thru wrote:

they're gonna have to try and keep it down ...LOL ...sounded like a child's train set

they really step it up in august

BMG wrote:

KK wrote:

BMG wrote:

You have a bunch of tree toads. Sounds tropical.

i don't know what they are. some kind of bugs. i took another one last night looking towards the pond. you can hear the frogs there

I recognized the sound. We have tree toads by the millions here in the south. They are real cute. They look like regular toads but they are tiny enough to fit in a thimble.

i think they might be cicadas

OK last night. facing the pond this time. You can hear the frogs in this one. the lights you see are solar lights along th pond path.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-rutImmUrU

OK tonight. I'll have this deer taking apples out of my hand by the end of the week. she got a little scared and i wasn't sure why but giada later told me she was coming up behind me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBOtRctFd7M

KK wrote:

OK tonight. I'll have this deer taking apples out of my hand by the end of the week. she got a little scared and i wasn't sure why but giada later told me she was coming up behind me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBOtRctFd7M

Yard pets. Very cool.

The deer around here are way too skittish for that.

BMG wrote:

KK wrote:

OK tonight. I'll have this deer taking apples out of my hand by the end of the week. she got a little scared and i wasn't sure why but giada later told me she was coming up behind me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBOtRctFd7M

Yard pets. Very cool.

The deer around here are way too skittish for that.

i'm surprised, i'm usually always chasing them away

KK wrote:

BMG wrote:

KK wrote:

OK tonight. I'll have this deer taking apples out of my hand by the end of the week. she got a little scared and i wasn't sure why but giada later told me she was coming up behind me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBOtRctFd7M

Yard pets. Very cool.

The deer around here are way too skittish for that.

i'm surprised, i'm usually always chasing them away

Our deer get hunted a lot.

BMG wrote:

KK wrote:

BMG wrote:

KK wrote:

OK tonight. I'll have this deer taking apples out of my hand by the end of the week. she got a little scared and i wasn't sure why but giada later told me she was coming up behind me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBOtRctFd7M

Yard pets. Very cool.

The deer around here are way too skittish for that.

i'm surprised, i'm usually always chasing them away

Our deer get hunted a lot.

these are pretty protected. no hunting allowed in the town . it's kind of like a pocket of woods that has everything they need.

("...yes I love animals too, not many in this city I live in and I wish europe had racoons but I think their cute..." said the goblin)

fleamailman wrote:

("...yes I love animals too, not many in this city I live in and I wish europe had racoons but I think their cute..." said the goblin)

we've got racoons. you hear them screaming at night. there are a high percent of them that have rabies though

("...the nearest thing we have to them is badgers I suppose, but I feel an affinity for raccoons in their stealing anything that's going now..." mentioned the goblin who could not be trusted near beauty)

fleamailman wrote:

("...the nearest thing we have to them is badgers I suppose, but I feel an affinity for raccoons in their stealing anything that's going now..." mentioned the goblin who could not be trusted near beauty)

we have ponds in our back yard full of frogs





every night the racoons are there trying to get a meal.

("...nice pics huckleburry..." went the goblin, adding "...at night, the park-like space in front of where I live has ravens in the trees and gypsies on the ground, perfectly safe but surreal, and I guess that if I didn't daily see their life of grasshopper I wouldn't at times question my life of ant...")

fleamailman wrote:

("...nice pics huckleburry..." went the goblin, adding "...at night, the park-like space in front of where I live has ravens in the trees and gypsies on the ground, perfectly safe but surreal, and I guess that if I didn't daily see their life of grasshopper I wouldn't at times question my life of ant...")

i like to enjoy my surroundings and get lost in them. I prefer them greatly to our man made world

wish I had a pond, I love frogs...I have to settle for ornamental frogs...

Edelweiss wrote:

wish I had a pond, I love frogs...I have to settle for ornamental frogs...

I'll post a few larger pictures of the pond. Both are man made. The larger one is about 16' x 22' and about 5 1'2 feet deep at it's deepest point. I dug it out by hand and used the dirt that came from it to build a terrace around 3 sides. then I built about a 20' stream on the upper terrace. a small waterfall feeds into it and then the stream back into the pond via another waterfall. A 2800 gallon per hr pump circulates the water. I have about 120 koi and shebunkins in the pond. I like to thin that number to about 50 every year. they reproduce so fast. the frogs came on there own or I may have had some frog eggs on lilly pads i put in. between the two ponds there has to be at least 30 frogs.

building a small pond is very easy. infact they make premolded inserts if you want to go that route. you just need to make sure it is deep enough it doesn't freeze to the bottom in your area if you plan on having things live in it.

KK wrote:

fleamailman wrote:

("...yes I love animals too, not many in this city I live in and I wish europe had racoons but I think their cute..." said the goblin)

we've got racoons. you hear them screaming at night. there are a high percent of them that have rabies though

I have them too. The buggers raid my bird feeders and even turn over trash cans and make a big mess. I went out with a shotgun one night with the idea of getting rid of a couple of them but I couldnt shoot.....too cute. Now I just keep the hose by the back door and spray them. I think they find that amusing.

BMG wrote:

KK wrote:

fleamailman wrote:

("...yes I love animals too, not many in this city I live in and I wish europe had racoons but I think their cute..." said the goblin)

we've got racoons. you hear them screaming at night. there are a high percent of them that have rabies though

I have them too. The buggers raid my bird feeders and even turn over trash cans and make a big mess. I went out with a shotgun one night with the idea of getting rid of a couple of them but I couldnt shoot.....too cute. Now I just keep the hose by the back door and spray them. I think they find that amusing.

trying to catch a groundhog i caught a racoon in the trap by accident. i saw first hand how nasty they can be. all that cuteness went away.

At my last place I had a table out back and I would put food on it for them. Ywo got into it and it soulded like wild dogs. I had called for my wife to watch and she was telling me to make them stop. I don;t have a dear=th wish so I didn't.

Joebert wrote:

At my last place I had a table out back and I would put food on it for them. Ywo got into it and it soulded like wild dogs. I had called for my wife to watch and she was telling me to make them stop. I don;t have a dear=th wish so I didn't.

they can be very vicious. you never know with animals