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[AL] EVER SINCE I WAS A KID, I'VE ALWAYS BEEN TROMPIN' AROUND THROUGH FIELDS CHASING FROGS AND CATCHIN' TURTLES AND THAT KINDA STUFF. AND WHEN THEY CAME UP WITH THIS FROG WATCH THING, I KNEW A LOT OF THE SOUNDS ALREADY, AND I JUST HAD TO REVIEW 'EM AND PRETTY MUCH THAT'S HOW YOU IDENTIFY 'EM.
YOU NEVER HAVE TO LOOK AT 'EM OR CATCH 'EM OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT, YOU JUST IDENTIFY 'EM BY THE CROAKING OR THE SONGS UNIQUE TO THAT SPECIES. YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO GO LIKE A HALF HOUR AFTER SUNSET. AND YOU JUST GO TO, YOU KNOW, WETLAND AREAS, AND STAND THERE LISTENING FOR THREE MINUTES. NO MORE, NO LESS. AND YOU JUST RECORD WHAT YOU HEAR IN THAT SPAN OF TIME.
A GREEN FROG USUALLY SOUNDS LIKE A BANJO. THEY'RE PROBABLY THE MOST COMMON FROG IN CLEVELAND. AND THEY'LL JUST GO GOONG, GOONG. AND A RELATIVE TO THE GREEN FROG IS THE BULL FROG, AND THEY USUALLY GO
AND IN THE SPRING YOU HAVE LITTLE PEEPERS THAT ARE ABOUT THE SIZE OF A DIME AND THEY PUT OUT A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF NOISE, AND THEY ALMOST SOUND LIKE A LITTLE BIRD PEEPING. BUT IT'S AMPLIFIED LIKE A THOUSAND FOLD. I MEAN IT'S ALMOST DEAFENING SOMETIMES.
WELL, YOU'RE THERE BY YOURSELF, AND IT'S DARK. SOLITUDE, THE QUIETNESS, THE PEACEFULNESS, IT BEATS SITTING AT HOME STARING AT A BOX IN YOUR LIVING ROOM, YA KNOW?
I WAS A HOSPITAL WORKER, AND IT GOT ME BY. I DID WHAT I HAD TO DO AND I ENJOYED IT. BUT AS A KID, THIS IS WHAT I WANTED TO DO. SOME THINGS, PEOPLE ARE ATTRACTED TO AND SOME THINGS THEY'RE NOT, YOU KNOW? I KINDA LIKE THE LITTLE ANIMAL THINGS. THEY'RE NOT FURRY OR ANYTHING LIKE, YOU KNOW, A CAT OR A DOG OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT, BUT THEY HAVE A RIGHT TO BE HERE JUST LIKE EVERYTHING ELSE.