Posted by Ritch on April 15, 2002, at 23:51:33
In reply to Horney Toads....yes, indeed!, posted by Shar on April 15, 2002, at 23:26:04
There are Horney Toads up here in the Ozarks, but not as many as used to be. Horney Toads have a perfect camoflouge pattern for hiding in the woods. I like listening to Tree Frogs at night. They make this cacophonous "clicking" sound that ebbs and flows (in large groups), that is very mysterious.
Armadillos have wondered north considerably. They are usually around up here after an El Nino year when it has been warm all winter. It has been over a year though since I saw one run across the highway.
I tried to find information about whip-or-wills and got a lot of Buddhist stuff interestingly. You have to get away from town a ways before you hear those.
There are *lots* of white-tailed deer that live just outside of town, however. I haven't seen one in my backyard yet, but I did see a silver fox a couple of years ago in my backyard after a blizzard.Mitch
> Yes, horney toads! So wonderful, feeling scrabbly in your hand when you catch them. We used to get a shoe box, poke some air holes in it, put a bed in it (about 3 sprigs of grass)and some water, and go huntin. We just walked the flower beds around the house, and they'd be poppin up all over. Then, into the box (I'm sure they were thinking, Oh, God, not again...) and we'd watch them and pet them, vow to keep them happy and healthy forever, and after we went to bed our parents would, of course, let them go. We would also catch them at school recess, but that was harder without the shoe box to keep them in.
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> With far aints and the elimination of habitat go horney toads, armadillos, fawns....and they make better neighbors than humans.
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> > Yeah, North Austin is becoming Dallas except I haven't seen mink coats worn to the grocery srore. Course, I haven't been to a g. store in N Austin.
> > I remember what you said about the lack of far aints when we were kids. Although I remember hearing about a friend in high school that was sitting on the practice field with everyone else after football practice. The coach was talking and this guy gets up and looks like he's spazzing
> > out. He was covered w/ aints and trying to get the hell out of his uniform.
> > I used to see 'horney toads' everywhere; now just see them on license plates. Remember those baby dinosaurs?
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