"Chirp, chirp, chirp"
"Swittle, swittle-eeee!"
Farther Away:
"Bleet, bleet, bleet"
"Bur-up, Burrrrr-up!"
(very low)"grunt...grunt"
(occasional)"Twir-at, Twir-at"
Far Away and Faint:
"Woof, woof"
"Murmur, murmer"(human voices)
"Purrrr-put-put"(motorboat in barely-moving speed)
I wish you could hear the cacophony of sounds tonight here on the lake.
Today, we finally broke the prison-hold of Winter. Highs were in the upper 70s and the temp now, around 7:00 is about 65 degrees.
My windows are open and it's the first time they can remain so at night without it being too chilly in here. Of course, having a decade of acclimation under my belt, my blood is too Floridian to say it's warm. I still don't have any fans running or, gosh forbid, the A/C. But it's nice...really nice.
It's nice to hear my friends out on the lake, living their lives aquatic and all. Of course during the "real" weather in a month or two when even nighttime lows are in the 80s, the concert will have all its players blaring their nightsong much more robustly for all the lake denizens to hear.
Only then, their calls will sound more ominous joined by many more, much louder and more dangerous-sounding creatures.
Fortunately by then, these windows will be closed up tight and the non-stop buzz of the air conditioner tones them out, silencing them to my ears.
Except when I walk, into the pitch-dark humid soup of a moon-less night, out my door, swatting at all manner of flying bugs and jumping reptiles...
"Arrrrgh-arrrgh!!"
"Awwwk! Awwww-Ka-ka-ka!"
"Burrrrrr-OW!"
"Buzzzzz-Bu-ZZZZZZ!!"
"Thump! Thump! BANG!!"
"Ahhhhh-Ahhhhh-AHHHHHH!!!
Gotta love lakeside living in Florida.