Carol Dee
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We found this in the pond today.
I guess the frog made a mistake trying to overwinter in our shallow koi pond!
I guess the frog made a mistake trying to overwinter in our shallow koi pond!
Interesting find... do not look if you are the quesy sort.
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Chickie'sMomaInNH
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well, you did warn us! found a fish i missed from last year in mine when i got it started. it was a gray color so very hard to spot it in the pond when i pulled the others out for the season. kept thinking i pulled everyone but guess i missed that one.
Zeedman
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And here I was expecting to see a frog leg sticking out of a koi's mouth.
I have trouble with rodents in my outbuilding.They've chewed through wiring & fuel lines in the past... got under the dash board of a car one year, and did a lot of damage. Most of that damage occurs in Winter, so every Fall, I put out mouse poison there. As a result, every Spring, I find a few dehydrated rodents in the outbuilding. Skeletons I wouldn't mind, they are more repulsive when they still have fur.
I have trouble with rodents in my outbuilding.They've chewed through wiring & fuel lines in the past... got under the dash board of a car one year, and did a lot of damage. Most of that damage occurs in Winter, so every Fall, I put out mouse poison there. As a result, every Spring, I find a few dehydrated rodents in the outbuilding. Skeletons I wouldn't mind, they are more repulsive when they still have fur.
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Sat night when I was in the country all the spring peepers where singing. I always have to stop myself from collecting some for White Plains.
baymule
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I love to hear the tree frogs in the spring. Right now we have the Whip-poor-wills calling in the evenings, tree frogs, crickets and other night noises. Oh, forgot the loud BOOF! of my Great Pyrenees! 
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Looks like he got zapped mid spring!
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Carol Dee
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Wow @baymule those are the sounds of Heaven on Earth.I love to hear the tree frogs in the spring. Right now we have the Whip-poor-wills calling in the evenings, tree frogs, crickets and other night noises. Oh, forgot the loud BOOF! of my Great Pyrenees!
Wish the neighborhood would pipe down so I could hear the frogs, water in pond, crickets etc...
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cool!
digitS'
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@Zeedman : Reminds me to go out with a raisin dipped in peanut butter.
Mice moved into the bed that is in the hoophouse now. Didn't expect them right in the middle of the bed but there was a lot of snow and the location was close to some bok choy that almost overwintered.
Caught 2. It's distressing to find them where a person knows the mouse didn't die quickly. One must have decided to run across the trap after getting away with eating the raisin. One foot caught, he couldn't pull the trap down the hole. I know he couldn't have been there 12 hours but, however long a time it was, it was too much for him.
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Mice moved into the bed that is in the hoophouse now. Didn't expect them right in the middle of the bed but there was a lot of snow and the location was close to some bok choy that almost overwintered.
Caught 2. It's distressing to find them where a person knows the mouse didn't die quickly. One must have decided to run across the trap after getting away with eating the raisin. One foot caught, he couldn't pull the trap down the hole. I know he couldn't have been there 12 hours but, however long a time it was, it was too much for him.
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@Carol Dee makes you wonder what stripped the meat off if he was frozen into place. What flesh-eating critters do you have swimming in there? Inquiring minds want to know.
I just noticed mice in my workshop. I've had problems there before but had them cleared out. I got two at once with a sticky trap and dog food as bait a few days ago but I know there is at least one more. It's about time to escalate from sticky traps.
And I saw a rat in my garden yesterday, running across an open area in the middle of the day. I'll use a live trap out there but that may escalate soon too. I never expect to get rid of all of them out there but if I'm seeing them in the middle of the day there here are too many. I've already removed five rats from my garden area since the first of the year.
Back on Carol Dee's topic, sort of, it's fun when you find skeletons and such. Cicada shells are interesting. Last fall I found a snake skin in a shed hanging on a wall. It had crawled up and pulled the skin off by hooking it on a roll of wire. About a 3' long snake, probably rat snake.
Sometimes I find small white rubbery eggs in the compost pile, I assume gecko or some type of lizard.
Think of all the fun some people miss out on by never leaving their house, though I'll admit finding a snake skin in your house can be kind of thrilling. Is thrilling the right word for that?
I just noticed mice in my workshop. I've had problems there before but had them cleared out. I got two at once with a sticky trap and dog food as bait a few days ago but I know there is at least one more. It's about time to escalate from sticky traps.
And I saw a rat in my garden yesterday, running across an open area in the middle of the day. I'll use a live trap out there but that may escalate soon too. I never expect to get rid of all of them out there but if I'm seeing them in the middle of the day there here are too many. I've already removed five rats from my garden area since the first of the year.
Back on Carol Dee's topic, sort of, it's fun when you find skeletons and such. Cicada shells are interesting. Last fall I found a snake skin in a shed hanging on a wall. It had crawled up and pulled the skin off by hooking it on a roll of wire. About a 3' long snake, probably rat snake.
Sometimes I find small white rubbery eggs in the compost pile, I assume gecko or some type of lizard.
Think of all the fun some people miss out on by never leaving their house, though I'll admit finding a snake skin in your house can be kind of thrilling. Is thrilling the right word for that?
