My partner & I were trying to ID a bird we heard while walking and the guy who had stopped his car to let us pass got out and was like "it's a frog, actually. Cope's Gray. I do frog surveys... Sorry" And then got in his car without a word and drove off. Absolute king
Merlin app.
And here it is! youtu.be/NLklbH0FS3I?...
Thank you for posting this!
Merlin Bird ID is great for birds.
The hero you didn’t know you needed. He left no name, no number, only knowledge of Cope’s Gray and the faint smell of pondwater. A legend. The Frog Knight rides again.
You know it would have bothered him all day if he had not gotten out to tell you. 😂
a ribbiting experience for him, to be sure
this post made me actually shake my head bravo
When we moved to superquiet Cathcart in southside Glasgow, I soon learned that Magpies and Squirrels make very similar chirrrrping noises.
Dangerous times we live in, with drive by education.
lol.
You know what, I get why the drunks weren't sure, you don't exactly see those little guys sitting around very much.
Ugh, so good. Thanks for the reminder.
😂😂😂
I have this one saved on my phone and I go back and read it when I’m having a bummer day
it will never not make me laugh!😂
The story is amusing but the use of the ellipses in the retelling of it just absolutely sends me
Same! Northern Sparrow's retelling killed me!😂
I got a drunk dial for a bet ender on Thanksgiving one year, it was hilarious.
I love this story!
Let’s normalize drunk calling professors instead of asking AI.
Someone told me about the Merlin app and it really works! But, it only identifies birds, not frogs.
I couldn't figure out why Merlin couldn't ID that one annoying bird, until I found a video about Georgia frogs and realized the mistake was mine. The Cope's gray tree frog really does sound bird- like.
Swine frog surveyors!
Ribbit
Get the Merlin app!
Try the "Merlin" app
It's like random subject matter expert internet comment, but entirely localized to your walking area. Surreal. How fun!
My first thought too! It happened IRL!
More of this. Drop you knowledge. Give a knod. Then off before it can be ruined.
For future use... the Merlin ID app is pretty great for identifying different birds by their sounds. I love using it. Even if it makes my husband crazy every time I tell him, I heard a new one in the yard. (Which is apparently more often than I thought it would be.)
🤩😳😳
An expert.
I would love that.
"This is it! My time has arrived!!" I love that he felt compelled to get out of the car to deliver the information to you. Yelling it out the window just wouldn't give the moment the proper respect. I hope the Frog King floats (on a lily pad made of gold) on that high for the rest of year.
Wow. That is a story.
Goddamn frog nerds
There’s an app called Merlin Bird ID that can recognize bird calls around you in real time. Not that it would have helped here but still
@tinycupz.bsky.social iconic behavior
Perfect!
Love that.
I think that might've been god y'all.
Back in the day, that story would have been in Readers Digest’s “Life in these United States.” Perfect.
Those were great!
Memory unlocked!!
Hahahaha, now we're really dating ourselves! Thanks!
That's awesome. Now I'm also wondering if there's a frog song ID app, because that would be cool, too.
I'd like to meet that guy
I had to do that once here in Hawaii for someone mistaking a coqui frog for a bird. Also someone who thought the sounds our parrot was making was a wild bird. As a crazy bird person I just can't watch them suffer.
I want to live in your neighborhood.
Legend
I was embarrassed watching the empty seats on the news. But sorry he wasted millions for his birthday. Wasted funds.
Beautiful!
See what education does for you! Sorts out the princes from the frogs.
Drive by science.
I think I need my whole life narrated like this.
I recently discovered that what I thought were weirdly displaced frogs (no water around) were actually Nightjars.
BONUS!
Absolutely!!!
Frogs, squirrels, squeaky transmissions, all strange birds
This is why Cornell's Merlin Bird ID app needs to add frogs...
I'm sitting here just after dusk listening to the peepers.... I was just thinking "if only Merlin identified frogs!"
One time my mom spent like an hour trying to identify a birdcall and it turned out to be the neighbor's lawnmower that he couldn't start
😂😂😂🤣
Merlin once told me the cranky squirrels were ducks. I was cracking up.
Lol!
Omg! Lolol!
Too funny!!! 😂😂😂 (apologies to your mom!)
My wife and I were enjoying lunch at the top of Mount Cambewarra on the NSW South Coast when we heard the sounds of a whipper snipper and a lawnmower coming from the bushes. Turned out to be a male lyrebird. Honestly, they'll mimic ANYTHING. youtu.be/mSB71jNq-yQ?...
Amazing video!
Somewhere down Bungambrawatha Land there was apparently someone who played the flute. The story goes the lyrebirds picked up the melodies he played, so he taught them the countermelodies too. So in that forest is known to play little bits of Mozart, as they pass the noises through the community.
Every time I encounter "whipper snipper" in the wild, I'm so tickled. & Thanks for giving me a new bird too
Absolutely floored to learn that it's not one of those quirky Aussie-isms, but a whole ass trademarked brand, so sayeth the Wikipedia.
It's pretty generic here. Any string trimmer gets that label.
Delightful wordsmithery, that. Also, jealous of your lyrebird sighting, that's VERY cool beans.
You laugh, but there's a starling out there who has heard that noise and is now singing the sound of a lawnmower failing to start to get him some sexy starling cloaca.
I’m not a birder but for a much longer time than is acceptable, I thought the Amazon van’s back up noise was a weird new bird sound I just hadn’t noticed in my 43 years on earth.
I would not want to see a bird that made that sound...
Knee-jerk follow. 🤭👍
That's hilarious!!! 💙
I'm sorry to your mom but I laughed so hard water came out my nose 😭😂
I laughed so hard my CPAP headset came off my face.
She wasn’t wrong..it is the deep-throated lawnpecker
Did you hear the story about the guy doing owl calls?
There was an owl at my friend's house that would repeat patterns at me which I did for months until someone said "what if you are making an owl pine like a troubadour for this other non-existent bird that it's horny for"
Luckily I think I don't have to worry about it being a guy unless someone was climbing a tree for months to make owl noises 20 feet above me
lol oh noooooo. That's amazing.
It maybe could have been the equivalent of us yelling FUCK YOU in various permutations at each other for months too
I mean, that's definitely the other bird call option. It's either fuck you or fuck me.
www.independent.co.uk/news/twit-tw...
There's a Jewish folk tale about a rich man who has a dream in synagogue that God tells him to put 12 challahs in the Ark every Friday. He does. Then the poor man who cleans the shul prays for food for his fam, goes to the ark, sees the challah. Rich man goes back to find it gone
This goes on for years until the Rabbi stays late and sees the whole exchange. Brings the two together, says, "your hands are God's, giving to the poor, and yours are also God's, taking from the wealthy."
Anyway that's what the owl calls made me think of
Being Jewish rocks this is a banger 😩
In my head they got married
I’d read that romcom AND watch the limited series on Netflix
"Owl Be Seeing You"?
"Where the Hoot Is"?
That was delightful. Thank you.
Oh my god 😭 that's so funny but genuinely wholesome 😂
It's one of my favourite stories.
One time I stalked a distinctive chirp for quite a ways through the woods to arrive at a backyard basketball court where a guy was doing katas in squeaking sneakers.
That’s like when I heard a bird in a tree and I looked and looked for it only to discover it was a squirrel.
That's fabulous!
Showed my brother this and he said: It’s odd, those frogs. Some of them make a bird sound and I once asked the biologist at my work what it was, he said a frog. I incredulously said, are you sure? He just scowled at me.
Why don’t we have a frog app 😫
I hear those too!! Lol
The one I used to use (eBird?) used to say "frog" or "insect" or "human voice" (handy when you're going "is the microphone even working?") I miss that.
I would like a "that's a squirrel, idiot" setting
Helpful! I was on a walk once when a chap announced the loud croaking noise we were hearing, was a frog. I suggested a raven instead, and just then one flew out from the trees😄
That's crazy. Frogs can't fly!! 🤪
Animals ARE crazy!!😆
Another absolute king would be anyone who supports my selfish GoFundMe gofund.me/2e1e38b4
🤣👏👏
I don’t get the apology lmao, the guy was being kind and sharing his knowledge
Nerds often overshare, and only realize it was socially awkward after the fact.
I suppose? Sounds like a regular guy sharing some passing info to me :)
I think he was sorry to "disappoint" them that it was a frog
You didn’t say this but in my head he also said, boom science! And then disappeared in a cloud of smoke.
Awesome!
😀
I wish I could run into a polite motorist who can answer all my questions!
As a not-very-good birder who also loves not-birds, I can now recognize two not-bird calls: wood frogs, which sound like angry, smol, barky ducks and chipmunks, who tweet quite convincingly.
We are chipmunk friendly. Holes everywhere on our property. We average 6-10 a year. They're very friendly & will eat from my hand. The moms even bring their babies out to meet us!
Had a resident female for a few years (we called her Risk). Babies so cute! Our dog (who would chase red squirrels) ignored her/treated her like something that belonged. Free-ranging cats and foxes are all around, though. Have not seen one in the yard for a while. They are everywhere, here, though.
Have you used the Merlin app? Bird identification from Cornell
Try the Merlin bird app. It’s free and it works really well. I sit outside early in the morning with it on just to see who is waking up in the neighborhood.
Wow! That’s an excellent way to start the day!
I love people who dump nature facts on me without asking.
YES! A new sound in our yard recently. I said woodpecker, hubby said frog. A friend here IDd as a grey tree frog! 🐸
BOSS!
Use the Merlin app!
Would it work for a frog?
Nope. But it will I’d birds! I use it every morning while I have my patio coffee
I do that too! It heard 12 birds in 5 minutes this morning.
Yay! Post if you get something cool!!
You can upload audio to iNaturalist for ID
This is awesome!
I call the frogs that "sing" outside my apartment at night the "birds of the night."
Anyone else picturing the screaming frogs scene from Yellow jackets?!? 😂
Legendary stuff.
youtu.be/NLklbH0FS3I?...
Thank you for that!!!
"All my years of study have culminated in this single moment"
I love Merlin for the recording database it is building. The future will be soothed by birdsong
I dream of imparting wisdom and disappearing into the haze like this man
Love this. All of it. Enjoying the sounds (I’m listening to peepers and owls right now) plus no-drama interaction w a fellow human. Simple moments like that are what keep me going. Thanks for sharing.
You may be interested in an app that I use every day. Merlin Bird ID developed by Cornell. Many awesome features including identifying birds by their song. You can actually use it anywhere in the world.
if we were all a hive mind we'd be so amazing! ...and i'd imagine scamming and abusing each other would be greatly decreased (i hope) :-)
Just the facts 🤣
Gotta love the "sorry" Lol (from Canada)
Every birding outing should have such a Good Samaritan there to set the record straight. Imagine a world full of scientifically-minded, nature-loving passers-by...
Merlin bird app is amazing for iding birds
You might have encountered a fey, just saying.
I wish there was an app that identifies frog and insect sounds.
I’m so glad I saw this and looked up their sound. I’ve been hearing this in the trees the last few weeks and could not figure out what “bird” it was. 😂
How cool is that? 👏👏👏
Answers the question of ‘where is an expert when you need one’?
If you haven't got the app already, consider Merlin from Cornell Ornithology Labs. Video identification snags birds calls and songs. I love it. Since installing the app, I have discovered so many birds in my area.
I use this!! It’s really fun and addicting.
Just started using it and it's really amazing. Easy and very fun.
Yes! One of our favorite apps!!
The problem is, Merlin won't tell you "that's just a squirrel barking again, dummy" 😅
Me too!
I love Merlin! It is the great-great-grandchild of this, which I love. Best stocking stuffer ever. I learned almost nothing about birds from the Audubon Bird Call whistle except that my attempts to play bird calls were ineffective b/c I can’t carry, let alone reproduce, a tune.
I can't whistle and I sing in the key of Off so I understand.
I love the Merlin app, but now I'm wondering if there's a frog analogue
I don't know, but I wouldn't be surprised if there were one for frogs and other amphibians.
You mean your Merlin bird app couldn't identify a frog's sound? Glad the other guy knew his frogs!!
Ok this is amazing. Idk why but I love this story. I had to look up the frog and listen. I needed this more than I realized. Ps I love frogs 🐸
For identifying birds, this works well for me. And it’s free. Android and iPhone. From Cornell University. merlin.allaboutbirds.org
I love this app!
“Sorry” is such a mic drop on a random fact check like that
This whole adventure has been nothing short of enriching. Me and my super nerd girlfriend have been collapsing in laughter. Thank you friends. That was ace
That you for this post and the whole thread that resulted from it.
For some reason, informing dozens of people throughout my life that the bird chirp they're struggling to identify is actually a chipmunk hasn't made me the coolest fucking guy around, and I don't understand.
The wildest thing about Maine for me that wasn't weather related is that their squirrels scream, like gibbering raving lunatics, for no apparent reason. took me 2 months to convince my ex that the noise he was hearing was squirrels, not cats fighting. Further, nobody in Maine appreciates...
Even harder is trying to convince a tourist that the demonic screeching from the eucalypts at night the noise they are hearing in Australia is koalas.
It's drop bears, lol
That their squirrels are existentially terrifying to people used to the usual ahole tittering squirrel of states that don't house Stephen King
Are there squirrels like that on Long Island? Because I just heard screaming and jabbering.
That's been happening to me, too... Turns out it's me making those sounds while doom scrolling
How...How did he know? What the fuck? XD
So frog and toad species have unique calls, just like bird species. You can do audio detection surveys for them just by learning the species in your area and then going out for a listen. We do presence/absence survey points here in California as a way of assessing distributions. ✌🏼
I didn't know that! Though my brain just assumed some dude randomly was just like "It's a frog, NERDS!" And it's a kinda funny mental image. Love ya and thanks for the info!
I'd have been like "do what now?" ... and loved every second!
gdi I need an app that identifies the frogs get him to come back and tell him that 😂🤣
I have a gecko in my house that chirps. You'd think it's a bird, but it's not.
So I looked up copes grey. These are the frogs we have here. And now the cockatiels have decided that's their new sound 😆
Well that's better than the smoke detector which is the preferred sound of our African Grey 🙄
Definitely better. I'm so sorry! My friend had an African grey during Clinton years and they loved CNN. Somewhere someone is caring for a parrot that yells "Monica Lewinsky "
🤣🤣🤣
🤣💜
So you’re saying it might have been a cockatiel???
Somebody on Bluesky posted today that their sister tried for a very long time to ID a bird call using an online app. It turned out to be the pump on their fish tank!
Merlin app identifies birds by sound
There's a really great bird identification app out there if you don't have it already. Explore the world of birds with Merlin Bird ID! MerlinBirdID.com
So gonna get this for the back garden. I mean I know what most of the birds are but it just sounds fun!
Was just about to say this - thanks! Unfortunately it can’t tell you that the bird is a frog or an insect ☹️
Not yet, but there's always hope that these features can be added in upcoming builds and revisions.
I love this app! Local park talk suggested it and it works great. Use it on my early morning walks to see which birds are up early for the latest gossip.
I sit out on my front steps and record all the different birds chirping. I love knowing who is making all those beautiful sounds!
I love Merlin! I have discovered you can choose a location, so when we watched a documentary about a nature preserve in Spain, I had Merlin ID all the birds we heard in the movie.
I knew about this but hadn't tried it. I will start using this feature; sounds really great!
Totally how I've learned my birds! Now I put it on the deck every morning just to see who's out there!
Finally, a superhero for me!
you absolutely don't get this level of quality on X
You do but it’d be about incel white nationalism instead of nature
Awesomeness
You need the Merlin app on your phone. It's a great tool to identify bird sounds but not frogs.
I want to find the frog guy and hug him. 🐸
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Lolol. I love this kind of story.
"I do frog surveys" is not a sentence I ever expected to read.
Legend
No kings Except this guy. Definitely not a Frog Prince.
Merlin app ftw for birds but mebbe not frogs 😂
Frog prince
This sounds like someone I actually know
Ok but how did he know it was a Cope's Gray specifically? I think this man may have superpowers, to be able to distinguish it from gray tree frogs by sound.
My dad (and his whole academic lineage) could do this scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=e...
💙
Love this. Truly hope he sees it.
GOAT
If it went "Papa ooma mow mow, papa ooma mow mow" then is was a Surfin' Bird. Or maybe still a frog.
I’ve heard about that bird…
Everybody's heard about it.
I learned about an app here on blue sky called Merlin Bird ID it was developed through a research grant at Cornell University. I’ve been using it every day. It’s so fun its like shazam for birds
It’s amazing. Blows my mind how it can just pick out the exact birds even thru background noise.
Love it!!!
The "sorry" at the end sounds very British in my head. Did your king have an accent?
I just looked this guy up on wikipedia and they have a video with his call that really shows how the frequency of a vibrating membrane and causes the sound it emits.
Those are beautiful frogs, too. Really fun little guys.
We need Frog Merlin so much.
Except OMG it has to be called Nimue.
If you're in Aus there is one. The FrogID app by Australian Museum www.frogid.net.au I guess some of the species on it may have a more cosmopolitan distribution
I’m in Texas, but this comment from the App Store is the best: “Every FrogID recording is listened to by one or more frog call experts at the Australian Museum.”
It does give you an AI answer instantly which is usually pretty accurate. The human experts take a week or two to review, but always send such a friendly & grateful email response! I guess it's a popular service
It’s just such a sweet image.
You can upload recordings to iNaturalist for ID
Yeah, but you would just be feeding an AI now, and getting AI junk back. iNaturalist will not be what it once was, what with the exodus and all.
Mountain lions sound like birds too, FWIW. 🙃 youtu.be/EVWfAog459k?...
Yikes! Thank you for this! They really ought to add that to Merlin for public safety.
Fucking Zorro
The age old nerd conundrum, when your ultra-specific field of interest is called on to save the day: Do you take the the time to strike up a friendly conversation with which to impart your invaluable knowledge, OR do you just drop your funky facts & bolt?
Drop and bolt is my style 🤣
Well, if all things being equal, you were to earn the same bewildered expression either way, I'd ALWAYS choose drop & bolt. But wtf do I know about being a nerd? 😉
Literally did that to a mum who couldn't pronounce the name of an animal to her children at a zoo this year - dropped the name, paused for a sec, bolted 👍
Oh yeah. I did that to some women butchering Scottish names in a baby book. It's an artform. You're welcome, world. 😆
Back when I was in IT I once strode into the CEO's office and fixed his PC by striking one key and walking back out. He covered the phone and shouted "Wait! Come back! How'd you do that?!"
No one should ever apologize for sharing frog facts.
Done that. Except without the car stop. Tree frogs will trick a lot of people! Also: Get the Merlin app!
Get the Merlin app for your phone. It identifies bird calls.
What a great story. Truly. Made my night to read about such a random, pleasant encounter.
Same! The beauty of Humanity—when it working well!💖😊
Joke's on him, it was actually a Northern Mockingbird imitating a Cope's Gray.
Haha you fool It was actually a Common Starling imitating a Northern Mockingbird imitating a Cole’s Gray
Frogs that sound like birds. This isn’t my America! 😉🤣
Frog surveys. They all stand together.
No kings.
I started using Merlin to ID bird calls when I found out that mountain lions make bird-like chirping noises, and a cougar had been spotted on the trail I walk my dogs on. If Merlin doesn’t recognize it, I assume it’s either an angry chipmunk or just a signal that it’s time to get off the trail.
That poor guy has an odd claim to fame.
That's if he was telling the truth. He might have been amphifibian.
I see what you did there.
booooooo 😂
*sad trombone* (affectionate)
🤘🤘
I like using the iNaturalist app for things like that, but random passerbys helping is good too. :)
I wonder how he knew it was a Cope's Gray Treefrog and not a Common Gray Treefrog? It's almost impossible to tell the difference in the wild.
Sounds like he may have hopped to a conclusion.
✨️
A frog expert who knows what Merlin users look like on the sidewalk. King indeed.
That is EPIC
Merlin ap needs to add frogs and singing bugs.
Came here to say that. A Merlin style identifier for frogs and singing bugs would be incredible.
iNaturalist.
I choose to read this story with the understanding that the frog researcher was Bill Murray.
He would be great for the owl romcom movie
The movie we all need!
It was but they figured if they revealed that part, no one would ever believe them.
How awesome 👍
I saw that guy in The X Files. He could get intense.
I once submitted a frog call to an identification app that tracks frog distribution here in Aus and got a reply saying it was a bird… I think I deleted the app out of shame
ribbit
Check out the Merlin app from Cornell University. It identifies birds by song so you don’t have to.
We used to live up north on 10 acres in the woods. We'd hear what sounded like a woodpecker pecking at a tree; it was actually a carpenter frog.
That is awesome. I love nerds
I work on the same property as my house. I own a peacock who chills in my backyard with my dogs. Clients have come back in, after several wasted minutes trying to identify his call, asking if I knew what that bird in the woods was making that noise. We're in Canada, btw, so he's not a native here.
People with random knowledge, and a willingness to share it, are what we need more of in the world. We all know things. Sharing them lifts everyone up and gives that little spark of joy at learning some odd tidbit you wouldn’t have found out except by that chance interaction.
And just like that you became a frog watcher.
Really sucks that 30% of sampled frogs consistently will not turn in their surveys, though
This is why you audio record their responses, take a cloacal temperature, and snip off a toe as proof they’ve participated.
You're weird. I like that in a person.
😊 And it’s all true.
I KNOW. That's the best part. My middle son's obsession was frogs for a good decade. I still carefully check all pockets for frog friends before doing laundry, even though he doesn't live with me. I almost miss laundry day hoppy surprises.
My favorite survey memory is little bird feet poking out of film canisters while they were being weighed!
In high school, I was an inaugural citizen volunteer for the Michigan Dept. of Natural Resources Frog and Toad Survey (it helps chart ecological health). You have to memorize like 12 calls, since that's how many species there are in Michigan! I think the Cope's is a subspecies with a higher call.
We do Frogwatch here in STL.
I can't remember the program, but the Michigan effort was inspired by another Midwestern state's program (maybe Wisconsin or Ohio?).
Also, not to go down memory lane, but our official government recordings of frog and toad calls to train our ears was distributed on CASSETTE TAPE! 😆 This was like late 1990s. Announcer voice after call: "That, was the Cope's Grey Tree Frog."
I still have a similar cassette tape. One side IDed frogs. The other side was just frogs. I used to quietly play that side when having guests- to drown out the nearby interstate freeway noise. Guests often commented on how cool it was to visit us "in the country" and hear frogs. 😀 🐸
Was this part of a frog and toad survey program, and if so, what state? Or, was this just like a naturalism self-education thing?
Amazing! When I visit my parents in like a month, I will see if I can find the Michigan cassette tape there. I wonder about the dates... It seems like a 1997 project of the Minnesota state government, which iirc is just after Michigan's started.
I see your state has this online for Michigan's 13 species. www.michigan.gov/dnr/educatio...
Just found this information -- Michigan survey was recently put on hold. The original idea was that people could be trained to identify fitting sites, and even 5-10 years of data there could be helpful. www.interlochenpublicradio.org/2023-05-05/t...
The study in Minnesota ran 1996—2002, after a pilot program in 1993. I think study was nationwide. From the study intro: The Minnesota Frog and Toad Calling Survey (MFTCS) was developed in response to concern over the potential for population declines in Minnesota’s fourteen frog and toad species.
Building on this and similar efforts throughout the U.S., in 1996 the U.S. Geological Survey’s Biological Resources Division initiated the North American Amphibian Monitoring Program (NAAMP).
In 1993, a pilot project established 20 frog and toad survey routes under the coordination of herpetologist John Moriarty, and with funding from the Minnesota Herpetological Society and the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles.
Minnesota Frog Watch 1997 files.dnr.state.mn.us/volunteering...
🙏💖🌎🍃🌱🐸💖🙏🌟
There's an invasive gecko like lizard, very loud, that fooled me like this in Darwin, Australia. Frog people sound nice.
You guys didn't get catcalled, you got frogcalled. A much nicer and friendlier alternative to catcalling.
That’s amazing. What an absolute legend—just rolled up, dropped pure knowledge like a side quest NPC, apologized for your confusion, and vanished into the mist. The Cope’s Gray Prophet.
For the win!!!
Honestly this is the most Madison story I've ever heard
Drive-by knowledge drop!!
I once heard what I thought was a frog but the sound was a little "off". Turns out it was a hawk making frog sounds so he could grab a little bird that came to investigate.
Blue jays do a remarkable hawk impression, possibly to scare smaller birds off prime feeding grounds. My local jays had me fooled for months until I caught one in the act
I just looked it up & listened, thanks to your post. Seems I've been hearing the Eastern Grey Tree Frog here, such a sweet warble, usually in the evening! By sight it's Cope's "twin," but the call is the tell. I'd thought we had a tropical bird in the yard! 🤭 These & spring peepers are THE best!
This would have MADE MY DAY. Also, I would've wanted him to help me find said frog so I could see one for myself.
I need this guy to follow me around while I'm searching with binoculars in vain
Please, oh please, give me a chance to live this out myself someday. “I do frog surveys.”
I strive to find a man like this Frog King.
😁👏❣️
That is a bad ass move. Respect.
Plot twist: there’s no such thing as Cope’s Gray tree frog
Salander-ous
Outstanding.
i want a job doing frog surveys, that sounds like fun
I suppose getting frogs to answer questions could be fun, but sounds like the job would keep you hopping.
🥰 Awesome!
@green-darkie.bsky.social I can see you doing this 😂
Once convinced seasoned birders to come look for frogs with me at night. Told them it was just as melodic and colourful, but in the dark 😂
😂😂😂true
He saw his chance and he took it
Plot Twist: He does not, in fact, do frog surveys, and was trolling you.
He still deserves credit for having "Cope's Gray" in his back pocket.
Perhaps surveys was a tad too formal, he does poles?
I see what you did there
😉
I searched for that “mystery bird”many times before finally learning the calls of gray tree frogs.
OK, so we can all hear it youtu.be/uWM4tc49GbQ?...
Awww tyvm
Cool!
Thanks! Glad you found it and put it on here. That's really cool (and totally sounds like a bird)
Thank you
This is the content I'm here for. Kudos 👍
Damn wandering frog surveyors bothering people with their frog learnin...
So good!!!
When you do frog surveys, you develop that One Weird Skill - the skill to ID all frog calls in your area. And it is so rare you get to use it that you feel the need to apologize for interjecting your Frogness whenever applicable.
