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07/05/2008, 11:27 Russethouse Joined on 23/08/2004 Forum Moderator Posts 9,489 Re: frogs Belle, I think most people are just astounded that you have purchased a house with a pond and are now complaining about frogs - if you have a pond, frogs come with the territory. Did it not occur to you at all ? As it upsets you the practical matter to address is how to get rid of the pond, as cheaply as possible. Could you drain it ? (I think its probably a job for cooler weather, it will probably smell now) and then ask your friends to give you any suitable material for filling in, (if any of them are building or renovating they should be able to come up with something)  then use the opportunity to plant things as Astillbes, Hosta's etc, things that like damp, perhaps have a pebble pool  In the mean time I suspect it may be worth trying garden lights in the area, you could test it with a few candles first. www.quimperclub.org 99    Report

07/05/2008, 13:03 Belle Joined on 05/03/2008 Posts 108 Re: frogs thanks for your comments RH I think I have said before, that when we bought this house we asked the sellers about frogs, and were told, that for some reason they hardly had any compared to other people, call us nieve, but we believed them.Also even if that conversation never happened, we hadn't any knowledge of frogs, or their mating habits, or actually anything at all about them, we came from the city, on days out in the country we would come across the odd croak, but nothing like we have here, we must have hundreds. A lesson to be learnt by anyone not doing enough research.    Report

07/05/2008, 13:38 Russethouse Joined on 23/08/2004 Forum Moderator Posts 9,489 Re: frogs The funny thing is that the sellers may have thought you would be dissapointed at the lack of frogs   www.quimperclub.org 99    Report

07/05/2008, 17:46 Weedon Joined on 23/08/2004 Laval (53) Posts 1,122 Re: frogs Doesn't that just go to show that life here in rural France isn't just one big bowl of cherries as the TV programmes like to portray.  Actually, it won't be many months now and then life will be many many big bowls of cherries, if only the Starlings would leave me some.  I have owls that make a screeching noise and one (it might be more than one) that goes toowit to woo when it is particularly quiet.  In my little (ish) pond I have some frogs that seem to croak Des O'Connor songs and there is an even bigger pond on the land nearby where an army of frogs make a helluva row which I can hear over the sound of the ice clinking in my drinks, there is even one that sits right outside my window and keeps whistling. Kestrels and Buzzards do their best to annoy me with their own noises and the cows in the field next door keep bellowing at their calves.  Don't those green woodpeckers make a b***y din, and now the cuckoo has started.  Altogether, life is a real nightmare here in Mayenne.    Report

07/05/2008, 17:55 Cat Joined on 21/01/2005 ------- Forum Moderator ------- Lot Posts 2,787 Re: frogs What, you mean you don't have any turtle doves cooing away outside your bedroom window at 5 in the morning, you don't know you're born you don't Weedon   Cathy Sun, sun, sun, here it comes...    Report

07/05/2008, 18:07 Russethouse Joined on 23/08/2004 Forum Moderator Posts 9,489 Re: frogs Tell you what, I'll swap you for the sound of the police helicopter going up when both your children are out (even if they are grown up !) www.quimperclub.org 99    Report

07/05/2008, 18:20 Cat Joined on 21/01/2005 ------- Forum Moderator ------- Lot Posts 2,787 Re: frogs Swap?  Not with me you won't, every time I hear the fire siren down in the village to call the pompiers to a job, I imagine the worst, and I have (as you know) a very vivid imagination Cathy Sun, sun, sun, here it comes...    Report

09/05/2008, 12:38 Weedon Joined on 23/08/2004 Laval (53) Posts 1,122 Forgot to mention butterflies Just be careful out there! http://good-times.webshots.com/video/3086250900100115447pqDrrZ    Report

09/05/2008, 21:11 mooky Joined on 12/12/2005 79 Posts 238 Re: frogs Why did I just know you would reply to my statement! I wrote what I did on behalf of the frogs who can't speak up for themselves. You obviously can, they can't;    Report

23/05/2008, 14:29 steve Joined on 30/01/2006 deux-sevres 79 Posts 58 Re: frogs I just had a thought, maybe Belle should have a quiet word with the frogs and ask them if they could only make noise between certain hours of the day, say 8am -12pm, 2pm - 7.00pm - 7.30pm If the frogs don't comply, she should report them to her mairie. As for complaining about me calling you shallow, what do you expect when you post something ridiculous on open forum! You can drain the pond, or not drain the pond, but you will have the frogs calling every year, whether there is water or not, you will also be destroying their breeding ground, as frogs return to the place that they were spawned. No matter what you do, you cannot escape the sounds of nature.        Report

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