Children of the night...SHUT UP

Yes I did just tell the wild creatures of the night to SHUT UP!

we live near a large lake, so we have plenty of geese and ducks and swans and all kinds of other birds.

this was what happened last night..

2:10 AM

Mocking Bird starts
that gets the geese and ducks and swams going in the lake
that gets all 5 of my house birds going
that gets the outside stary cats going
that get my inside house cats going
that gets my dog going

This goes on till around 4:00 am

so please have mercey on us humans..



GO TO SLEEP ALREADY!!

Urbanites;)

The Stray Cats are back together?

Oh yeah

I'd like to throw that huge thing at them!

WTF is a STARY cat?

Have you ever been woken up by a bear invading a loon's nest at 2am? Talk about noisy. I bet everything within a 5mile radius was woken up.

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WTF is a STARY cat?

a male new york horny cat!


get with the new lingo


(good save right?)

What Zac said.

You're just lucky - actually you're not lucky - lucky is to have loons nearby - but you wouldn't get much sleep. Believe me.

I thought all the Loons posted on TT.............

i thought this was going to be about me.

what a relief.

That was my first thought too :)

Wasn't that something from "Rocky Horror"?

LOL...I have the "dog night chatter" in the country. And our 18 month old Chessie wants so bad to be involved. Normally if he starts barking I tell him to "get up here"he will crawl...technically he just walks up the bed he is so big...up on my legs and lay his big snoot on me and go back to sleep.

Course mapes I did have a time where I would have paid big money to get the children of the night noises. I lived in a Condo and my neighbor's bed backed up to the paper thin walls. He and his significant other would start drinking about 10 PM and really shift into "High Gear" about 2 AM. Finally one night I took my shoe, pounded on the wall and yelled,"Pound it to 'er" they stopped the nightly operation after that.

when i'm feeling like a bad girl, i want Rocky Horror.

You'd be hating my yard right now Mapes...various toads, several kinds of frogs, night calling birds, and some other things I can't identify are making a major racket outside right now. The spring "Hey Baby!" chorus is in full swing.

[reprise]

Science Fiction.... Double Feature
Frank has built.... and lost his creature
Darkness has conquered.... Brad and Janet
Servants have gone to.... a distant planet

Whuh uh uh oh, oh-oh-oh

At the late night, double feature, picture show....

was feeling done in, couldn't win
I'd only ever kissed before.
I thought there's no use getting into heavy petting
It only leads to trouble and seat wetting...

Now all I want to know is how to go
I've tasted blood and I want more
I'll put up no resistance, I want to stay the distance
I've got an itch to scratch, I need assistance:

Toucha toucha toucha touch me, I wanna be dirty
Thrill me chill me fulfil me
Creature of the night.

Then if anything grows while you pose
I'll oil you up and rub you down
And that's just one small fraction of the main attraction
You need a friendly hand and I need action...

Toucha toucha toucha touch me, I wanna be dirty
Thrill me chill me fulfil me
Creature of the night.

wow

i take it you never went to this movie? how old are you?

nope never seen it in a theater.

I'm a ripe old 38

oh, i got nearly ten years on you. i was going to this when you were 7 years old. ROFL! i can still fit into the costume i made when i was 19 years old!

I was wondering when someone would get the quote.


treebait, we used to leave in the middle of the woods (sunbathed nude on front pourch )
we had a frog pond behind the house. OMG when mating season hit, I thought I was going to go nuts!

Around 10 pm, the frogs and toads were deafening. They kept my neighbor to the east awake until the wee hours. Her bedroom is on the back of her house, facing the majority if the chorus.

the bottom line is,

all they want is SEX

horney little buggers

amphibious assault

group sex

I like to think that the sounds of nature really don't bother me, but memory suggests that not to be so. One night in '05 while on the AT, probably somewhere in Virginia, a Whipporwill decided to perch right over my tent and make his noise...all night long. Sometimes, while on a hike, you can get so overtired that sleep is nigh onto impossible. That was such a night. I heard that damn bird most of the night from dusk to dawn. Occasionally he would take a break, diabolically just long enough for me to hit the edge of sleep, then he'd start again. If I had a shotgun I would have joyfully blasted every whipporwill into extinction with a smile on my face.

Whip-poor-wills are strange critters.   Being nocturnal and so well camouflaged, lots of people have never seen one, me included.   I ran across an image of one the other day (while looking for something else, of course).









http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/Whip-poor-will_dtl.html

Coloration and camoflage of a snake or lizard. Close enough to be evil according to some.

Nimble, where's that pic that needs fixing?

Those birds that fly at night already freak people out.

It's a spooky-lookin' little sucker, for sure.

Yesterday morning, I woke up to massive amounts of frog and toad spawn, all over the pond and stuck throughout the filtration. Yuck and yuck. A bunch of grey tree frogs were still going at it. I had to pick up and move a few couples. That was particularly nasty at one point. Oozy eggs and whatnot, all over my hand and stuck between my fingers.

Thank you Tree....you have helped me stay on the diet one more day......

wait, wet frog...oh lord that is gross on so many levels!

I think I am going to a carrot

LOL!

nimble, one night in Panthertown we had 3 whippoorwills triangulated around our campsite. I know exactly how you feel about wanting to kill everyone of them you see/hear.

Trying to remember but years ago I remember a case story about a blind man who was kidnapped. During his imprisonment his only contact was a mockingbird who nesting near his window. Each day and night he would listen to it.

When he was released the FBI was able to find the house by the differing calls of mockinbirds. PRETTY COOL

I now have scads of tadpoles, about to hatch out of their eggs. That was fast. We need more predators around here.

The old mine on St. Mary's River Wilderness in Virginia during whippoorwill season is not a good place to get a good night's sleep. The sound comes from all directions and is so shrill it literally pulses. It is the most bizarre thing I have encountered in the wilds. Luckily it quickly dawned on me that there was no way I was going to strangle 1,497,197 birds and the sound eventually put me to sleep. How a stinking tiny little bird can make all that racket I have no idea.

One, two, even three whippoorwills is neat. When they are all around and all going at once, let's just say you'd gladly trade for spring peepers.

Once in a while we get two at once and they're usually a couple of hundred yards away..... <grin>

your all talking about ONE NIGHT
try living with it night after night.

evil little creatures! I swaer they do it on purpose!!

I bet they say the same thing about you

Talk about living with it night after night, what about poor Treebeard?

Ha-ha.

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Talk about living with it night after night, what about poor Treebeard?
Ha-ha.

oh please, that guy is to busy snoring to hear a thing. him and my son can sleep during a bombing

the thing about being a snorer is, you wake yourself up. it sucks.

Mapes wish I could offer advice...for dogs it was always peanut butter and crackers.

Tilt quick check here...did you want to DOUBLE that order of noisy birds for maple this week or leave it the same?

Yep. It sounds like Maple will need a few more to rouse Treebeard.