Thursday, June 25, 2015

If it quacks like a duck ...



Now that the weather's warmer and I've been sleeping with the windows open, I've been hearing something ...odd.

Seems like every night, around three a.m., I hear something that sounds like a duck quacking in the brushland adjacent to my property.

"quack ... quack .. quack ...", quietly, off and on, until I drift back to sleep.

Do ducks even quack at night?  What the hell am I hearing?  Any ideas?


6 comments:

~~Silk said...

Frog.

~~Silk said...

Or toad.

rockygrace said...

~~Silk, a frog or toad that QUACKS? I ... I did not know such a thing existed.

~~Silk said...

Yup. They make all kinds of sounds. Of course, it COULD be a duck with insomnia.

~~Silk said...

Google "frog quack duck" and you'll find lots of stuff. From "Frogs and Toads of New York": *Before winter is officially over, and often while there is still ice on the ponds, a sound like quacking ducks may be heard in forest ponds and beaver flows. This is the wood frog, the first of the New York amphibians to make an appearance each year.*

rockygrace said...

Well, I'll be damned.