On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 22:02:18 -0600, "Koi-Lo"
wrote:

It's quiet here in the winter. All I may hear is a dog barking or rooster
crowing off in the distance. From spring to fall it gets noisy with an
assortment of insects, crickets, birds and the frogs. The bird song and
frogs peter out summer. From late summer to frost it's mainly insects and
crickets - right up to the first killing frost.

It just doesn't get that cold here. The mosquitoes and other bugs get
pretty thinned out by the first frost, which often occurs in December but
has been as late as January. It's louder in spring and summer, but other
critters pretty much make noise year round in this area. Frogs pretty much
are here all year, and birds come here in the winter just like other folks
from up north. It seems quieter out here than in the city to me, but I'd
imagine it has more with me liking nature sounds than city sounds. The
actual noise level probably isn't a whole lot less.

Galen Hekhuis NpD, JFR, GWA
Stings like a butterfly, floats like a bee