Bermuda Blog

As you may or may not know, in Bermuda there are tiny tree frogs, sometimes called singing frogs, which sing every night, as least in the warmer months. This frogs sound similar to crickets, but the sound is different....and louder. The frogs, which are about the size of a thumbprint, can sing very loudly, despite their dimunitive size.

Last night, there was one frog outside our bedroom that was mich louder than usual. Michelle was unable to sleep, the frog was so loud. So, in the middle of the night, she woke me up and asked me to close the windows. Groggily, I did so, and immediately the sounds of hundreds of frogs became muted -- you could still hear them, but much less with the windows closed. But as I climbed back into bed, there was one frog that still seemed to be very loud (the same frog, most likely). I noted this and went immediately to sleep. In the morning, Michelle thought there was a cockroach on our bedroom blinds (which sit between the screen and the outside window, but realized that in fact, it was a tiny singing tree frog. Apparently when I closed the window, he was on the inside of the glass. So closing the window essentially trapped him between the window and our screen....yes, he was practically in our bedroom. Noiw, of course, his singing would have been bouncing off the glass window, making it even louder in our bedroom! We opened the window and kindly asked Kermit to sing a little further from the window in future.