Tree frogs of Burque?
Yes, that’s really what it’s about. Just a plea for help.
Yesterday, when I took Emma Dog for a walk in the Vineyard, the late-season field crickets were tuning up. And as the sun began to set and I got close to more wooded areas on the eastern edge of the field, I heard trilling that definitely seemed to me to come from tree frogs.
I’ve heard that kind of trilling before. I’ve even heard it from my house. Its rhythms suggest respiration rather than stridulation. And it resembles the calls of leopard frogs, which are common in New Mexico, although higher-pitched and what I would call more musical.
I seem to remember seeing tree frogs when we lived briefly in Santa Fe in the early 1960s. Also I believe I’ve seen them in Albuquerque. But I’m not sure.
So I beg you, kind readers: does anybody know if tree frogs really do reside here in the Duke City? Or am I just crazy? Again.
Afternote: According to Wikipedia, which believe it or not has a List of New Mexico amphibians (no, really), NM is home to a species of Barking Frogs. That’s just a euphemism for farting, right? Am I right? I’m right, aren’t I?
Tags: a plea for help, The Vineyard, tree frogs