I put this in today's thread about things that go bump in the night, but I think it deserves a mention here too.

http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=33010&messages=10

Last night I got up in the middle of the night to let the cat out and when I opened the back door I could hear hubby's car alarm going off. It's one of those repeated electronic sounds, like a loud but melodic beeping, with two notes.

I grabbed his keys and ran out of the door, thinking that the neighbours would be ready to kill us by now, with this thing going off for who-knows-how-long in the middle of the night. When I got out the back door and turned right to head for the street I suddenly realised that the noise was down the back yard.

I went down to investigate. Yesterday, here in Newcastle, east coast Oz, we had a full day of persistent rain, which we haven't had for a long time. It had obviously woken up the tiny frogs and they had migrated to our yard. (I haven't heard frogs in our yard in the 3 years that I have lived here, except when I brought a tiny one home from the supermarket. I found it sitting comfortably on a potted plant, so I bought the plant just to rescue the frog.)

Helen