Night Sounds

I stepped outside to feed the dogs at dusk and noticed the night sounds.

Earlier, it rained for 10 minutes, leaving everything wet and still. I think the night sounds are different after a rain.

Our house is a few feet from dense jungle, and our lot and the adjacent lots have tall trees. Plenty of places for birds, frogs and insects to gather.

We have named one bird the Orgasm Bird. It's call starts with a long, low tone which gradually gets shorter and higher in pitch until it ends in a frenzy. Thus the Orgasm Bird.

Another loud bird sounds like an owl with a warble. Distinctive because of the volume.

Then there are the tree frogs. And dense background noise from all the bugs. And a couple of dozen other bird calls.

And there are toads. I have never liked toads. These toads are nocturnal so you don't see them in the daylight. They are u-g-l-y, fat, HUGE toads. One got in the house the other night. Our friend picked it up and put it outside.

I wasn't going to do it. Yuk!

Add in a few chickens which drives Emmy nuts. She loves to play with chickens to death, then she leaves them and goes on to something else. That's one of the reasons we fenced our property. Chickens still come up to the fence, just to infuriate Emmy I suppose.

As I sit in my bedroom writing this, the sound of the night is still murmuring outside the windows.

I do love night sounds.

It reminds me of childhood, when I was outside every summer night until late, playing and taking in the night sounds.