Tree Frog Season

The rainy season has arrived and with it the tree frogs are making their presence known. They live in the downspouts and are in hibernation much of the year.

Perhaps in the natural world they live in hollow trees and caves, but since every house here has a bunch of downspouts, they have adapted easily to that environment.

Now the one difference is that they start to sing when it rains. "Sing" is probably too strong a word for it, they croak. Or whatever frogs do in your language. In Swedish they go

Kou ack ack ack, kou ack ack ack,
kou ack ack ack ack kaa.

as in the song Små grodorna, which the Swedes perform while dancing around the maypole.

Anyway, the tree frogs croak or kouack or whatever, but it gets severely amplified by their being resident in the downpipes. So rain here is inevitably accompanied by an orchestral chorus of treefrogs resonating from the downpipes. And once one frog sings, all frogs sing.

Its a noisy neighborhood.