Comments on: Our House Frog Liked Beethoven http://www.yourlocalmarketblog.com/2009/08/20/our-house-frog-liked-beethoven/ Organic Grocery Market, Shop Local, Small Farms, Family Farms Wed, 23 Mar 2011 19:01:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Gene Logsdon http://www.yourlocalmarketblog.com/2009/08/20/our-house-frog-liked-beethoven/#comment-5589 Gene Logsdon Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:04:05 +0000 http://organictobe.org/?p=3139#comment-5589 To all of you who commented above. It is so fascinating and satisfying to find out that others experience what I thought were rare incidences. Our hummers fight all the time for a perch on the feeder. I think they are playing. Or maybe dancing. The great thing about the Internet is to learn we are not alone. Gene Logsdon To all of you who commented above. It is so fascinating and satisfying to find out that others experience what I thought were rare incidences. Our hummers fight all the time for a perch on the feeder. I think they are playing. Or maybe dancing. The great thing about the Internet is to learn we are not alone. Gene Logsdon

]]> By: Joanna http://www.yourlocalmarketblog.com/2009/08/20/our-house-frog-liked-beethoven/#comment-5588 Joanna Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:59:33 +0000 http://organictobe.org/?p=3139#comment-5588 I love our froggies! It's blackberry season (we have a 40 x 70 patch in our front yard) and it's so neat to be out picking while our new honeybees gather nectar and then see a little tree frog sitting on a leaf, getting gnats. Since we live in the Pacific Northwest, I can never tell if the frogs are peeping about imminent rain, or just peeping for fun. Our hummingbirds have already left for the season, but when they're here, they have no problem letting me know when the feeder is low. The kitchen window opens onto a covered deck/porch area and the feeder hangs off the outside edge of it. The hummers fly right under the deck roof and stare at me while I do dishes. I sure get scolded when I hustle out to grab the empty feeder. There is always one that stakes a claim to the feeder each year (maybe the same one?), and it learned to perch near us when it wanted a break from dogfighting the 'invading' hummers. I guess it figured out we are not going to hurt it, so now we're a part of its defensive tactics.... -Joanna I love our froggies! It’s blackberry season (we have a 40 x 70 patch in our front yard) and it’s so neat to be out picking while our new honeybees gather nectar and then see a little tree frog sitting on a leaf, getting gnats.

Since we live in the Pacific Northwest, I can never tell if the frogs are peeping about imminent rain, or just peeping for fun.

Our hummingbirds have already left for the season, but when they’re here, they have no problem letting me know when the feeder is low. The kitchen window opens onto a covered deck/porch area and the feeder hangs off the outside edge of it. The hummers fly right under the deck roof and stare at me while I do dishes. I sure get scolded when I hustle out to grab the empty feeder. There is always one that stakes a claim to the feeder each year (maybe the same one?), and it learned to perch near us when it wanted a break from dogfighting the ‘invading’ hummers. I guess it figured out we are not going to hurt it, so now we’re a part of its defensive tactics….

-Joanna

]]> By: Anne H In Kentucky http://www.yourlocalmarketblog.com/2009/08/20/our-house-frog-liked-beethoven/#comment-5585 Anne H In Kentucky Tue, 25 Aug 2009 11:36:22 +0000 http://organictobe.org/?p=3139#comment-5585 I hope we never accidently move a peeper in our house--with my husband around it would never quit singing! :=) I hope we never accidently move a peeper in our house–with my husband around it would never quit singing! :=)

]]> By: homebrewlibrarian http://www.yourlocalmarketblog.com/2009/08/20/our-house-frog-liked-beethoven/#comment-5573 homebrewlibrarian Fri, 21 Aug 2009 23:51:00 +0000 http://organictobe.org/?p=3139#comment-5573 With regard to animals communicating about food: A friend of mine has several cats and keeps one of those feeders that refills the dish as it empties. One of his cats, a very ancient and venerable and extremely tiny female, indicates the need for additional food when the bottom of the dish shows. She does this by putting twist-ties (those paper wrapped wire ties mostly used on bread product packages) in the dish or right next to it. He can not figure out where she finds the ties but they always appear when the bottom of the dish comes into view. As I was a recent houseguest there, I saw the ties and asked for an explanation. While he has come to understand the meaning of the ties, he has no idea why she chooses the ties over, say, the small cat toys littering the house. It's a conundrum. But at least she gets her message across! Kerri in AK With regard to animals communicating about food:

A friend of mine has several cats and keeps one of those feeders that refills the dish as it empties. One of his cats, a very ancient and venerable and extremely tiny female, indicates the need for additional food when the bottom of the dish shows. She does this by putting twist-ties (those paper wrapped wire ties mostly used on bread product packages) in the dish or right next to it. He can not figure out where she finds the ties but they always appear when the bottom of the dish comes into view. As I was a recent houseguest there, I saw the ties and asked for an explanation. While he has come to understand the meaning of the ties, he has no idea why she chooses the ties over, say, the small cat toys littering the house. It’s a conundrum. But at least she gets her message across!

Kerri in AK

]]> By: SuperMomNoCape http://www.yourlocalmarketblog.com/2009/08/20/our-house-frog-liked-beethoven/#comment-5572 SuperMomNoCape Fri, 21 Aug 2009 18:10:50 +0000 http://organictobe.org/?p=3139#comment-5572 Oh my goodness, I thought we were the only ones who had a hummingbird that let them know when the feeder was empty. Ours doesn't bump into the window, but will come to the backdoor, look in at us and continue to hover there waiting for us to notice. Oh my goodness, I thought we were the only ones who had a hummingbird that let them know when the feeder was empty. Ours doesn’t bump into the window, but will come to the backdoor, look in at us and continue to hover there waiting for us to notice.

]]> By: Annette http://www.yourlocalmarketblog.com/2009/08/20/our-house-frog-liked-beethoven/#comment-5571 Annette Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:51:17 +0000 http://organictobe.org/?p=3139#comment-5571 FDL Thank you for the laughs. =) Wish we had a house peeper. FDL Thank you for the laughs. =) Wish we had a house peeper.

]]> By: Teresa Sue Hoke-House http://www.yourlocalmarketblog.com/2009/08/20/our-house-frog-liked-beethoven/#comment-5570 Teresa Sue Hoke-House Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:05:10 +0000 http://organictobe.org/?p=3139#comment-5570 Thanks for the story, every morning should start with a good laugh. We time certain events around here when the son-in-laws will be around too, haha. We lure them with barbeque and beer. Works every time. Thanks for the story, every morning should start with a good laugh. We time certain events around here when the son-in-laws will be around too, haha. We lure them with barbeque and beer. Works every time.

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