I heard him

[brenda]

I heard Jürgi trilling from underneath the front porch. It's still quite cool here at night, so he might not come out yet, but soon ...

[George K]

@brenda

[Doctor Phibes]

Well, that was disturbing.

[George K]

@Doctor-Phibes which part?

"Trilling"

or

"Under the 'Front Porch' (wink)?"

[Mik]

️. And theY call it bullfrog love

[Loki]

@George-K said in I heard him:

@Doctor-Phibes which part?

"Trilling"

or

"Under the 'Front Porch' (wink)?"

Under the front porch, heard just by me, yeah
On a blanket with my Jurgi is where I'll be

[brenda]

Pictures of Jurgi from last year:

Picture of frog from tonight:

Picture of Emmie from last year:

Jurgi trilled for me tonight, but Emmie came to visit.

[brenda]

Don't go by their color. They can change that to blend in with their surroundings. When they're young, they tend to be green, becuase they hang out in the grass and plants. As they get older they will be gray more often, becuase they crawl around on trees, going up the trunk, which is often gray.

[brenda]

[George K]

That's some happy-looking amphibians, there.

[Mik]

Sometime I wish I was able to change color, like to the couch and walls. Or the bed.

Stealthy.

[Loki]

Inquiring minds want to know, any chance they will pay a visit to the indoor towers?

There are so many sociological studies you could perform. I’m sure the members here could propose and perhaps fund.

For example: Rana, R. Temporaria, observational study of early stage fly catching skills in nature vs nurture habitats

[taiwan_girl]

That is very neat Brenda!! Keep us updated as to how they do.

[brenda]

@George-K

So far, this is the only frog to visit this spring. Emmie has been here two nights in a row now. I hear Jurgi during the day, but he hasn't made his appearance to the porch yet. Yesterday, he was under the porch right below my chair, and he was so loud with his trilling. Every time he trills, I talk to him for a moment.

I swear he knows what I'm saying sometimes. I asked him if he was Jurgi or Thor!, and he trilled doubly loud as if to tell me "Of course I'm Jurgi, who else would trill like this for you?!" He's such an alpha male froggo.

[brenda]

@Mik said in I heard him:

Sometime I wish I was able to change color, like to the couch and walls. Or the bed.

Stealthy.

Until your wife gets wise to your game, then it goes from stealthy to unhealthy.

[brenda]

@Loki said in I heard him:

Inquiring minds want to know, any chance they will pay a visit to the indoor towers?

There are so many sociological studies you could perform. I’m sure the members here could propose and perhaps fund.

For example: Rana, R. Temporaria, observational study of early stage fly catching skills in nature vs nurture habitats

Do you mean whether I will take a wild froggo and bring it indoors?
No.

Do you mean whether I will put a wild froggo inside the big froggie house when it's out on the porch? No.

Do you mean the wild froggo goes into the big froggie house after the screening is removed?
I suppose that could happen, but I wouldn't make it happen. It would only be if the wild froggo was curious enough to climb up into it. By that time, the indoor froggos would be out and about from their house, so they would mix and mingle anyway.

BTW, I enjoyed your rewrite of the lyrics!

[brenda]

@taiwan_girl said in I heard him:

That is very neat Brenda!! Keep us updated as to how they do.

Will do!

It's difficult for them to get up on the porch in their usual way right now. Normally, they would climb the long flower stalks near the porch, and then hop over to the edge of the porch floor, or they will climb one of the tall birdfeeder poles and jump over to the porch floor. It's early in the season, so the flowers aren't tall enough. It's so cool in the evening, the metal poles are too cold for their toes, so they jump off to the plants again.

The last two nights, I have gone down to the flower bed and picked Emmie up from where she's looking up at me to bring her to the porch. Yes, I am taxi service to frogs here. She doesn't mind, except she wants to ride on the front of my sweatshirt. They love to crawl up my arms.

Emmie got special treatment last night. I want to encourage the frogs to come to the porch, but the number of bugs is still low due to the cool weather, so the bug zapper doesn't attract many bugs for them yet. That's what makes the froggos want to come up to the porch: dinner.

I have some breeder crickets in the dining room that are too large for the house froggos to eat, so I brought a few out for Emmie. She wasn't interested in the first two, becase they hopped away so quickly. The third one made a wrong turn and hoppped toward Emmie. She popped that little cricket in her mouth so fast, and then squeezed it down her gullet. That can take a minute or so for a big bug.

After that, she left the porch, but didn't go far. She decided to sit on the trellis immediately behind my chair, and stayed at about the same height as the porch floor, which is about four feet from the ground. That was a nice perch for digesting her first dinner of the evening.

Hobbits have multiple breakfasts, and froggos have multiple dinners.