Catherine, I enjoy the croaking of frogs and the sound of crickets, but this thing sounds like someone blowing a whistle in your ear all night. It's kind of eerie.

Maybe those aliens, watch your fish that they don't start turning up dead with their stomachs missing. LOL Glenda

Definitely toads. I'm very familiar with that sound.

Could it be bats? I hear a whistle/chirp in the bush lots around my area and thought it to be bats echo becuase they chrip over and over then pause then start again. You can hear them for miles. Their are also frogs chirping quiet different from this other, (less harsh) anyway just a thought- Frogged

I agree with hbwright. Definitely Toad. The first time I heard that noise my husband and I went outside with baseball bats, expecting to find an alien creature of some sort. All we found was a small toad with a bubble at the throat. Very LOUD. You would never expect such an ear piercing noise to come out of something so small. After about 4 nights of the noise, we found strings of eggs in the pond, and later tadpoles. Then the noise started again a week or so later. Continued on and off all summer.

Good Luck.

Amanda

We are blessed with two toads this year! We rarely get toads so we are thrilled. They are loud but the sound is pretty.

Lisa

John, try the link below for a recording of a toad call.
Toads let out a long sharp trilling sound and if you have many toads, the noise from them at night can become very loud and annoying to some people.
I had to remove about fifty toads from around our pond two years ago because of the noise they were making. My neighbours brought it to my attention!!!
Now the toads are at a small lake near us where they can 'scream' all night.lol
"Horton"

Here is a link that might be useful: American Toad sound

Thanks to everyone for the comments and suggestions.

Horton, your link is exactly what the noise sounds like. I don't think its the exact species, because I'm out of its range, but it must be a close cousin.

I enjoy visitors to my pond, but the calls of this toad are not the usually pleasant sounds of which I'm accustom.

If you haven't already, I'd encourage everyone to turn your computer speakers way up and click on Horton's link.

I'm afraid my neighbors are going to start asking me about the sounds very soon. I think I'll stick with the alien creature story.

Repeating everyone here, but definitely toads. You can't believe a sound like that can come out of something so small. They are aliens! We call them our Screaming Toads. I had read it's either a mating call or the male toad announcing that your pond is his territory. Mine were early this year. They're a hoot. When I let my dog out, I catch them lazily swimming back and forth in the pond and when they see me they let out a little "chirp." It's like their own personal hot tub. I hope you have fish because pretty soon you're going to see thousands of tadpoles! If you're lucky you might be able to catch them mating in the pond. Otherwise toads live on land.

Ooooh, good link Horton, thanks.

Really does sound like aliens, I just listened to the recording.

Good link Horton, Thanks for all the great responses you give on this forum!! I have learned a lot from you!
Dianne

Thank YOU all very much, I'm glad the information was of interest to you.
Keep an eye on your pond if you have a great number of toads coming around to breed, as they produce masses of spawn and subsequent tadpoles,so many in fact,that their numbers can diminish the oxygen content in the water.
Birth control, by netting out the spawn before it hatches can keep the number of tadpoles down to a sustainable level.
The collected spawn can be moved to a creek or another pond somewhere else to develop.
"Horton"

It's not toads. Not regular ones, at least. Toads whistle to find mates but it's more of a reverberated tremolo than a whistle and you definitely wouldn't confuse the two.

My wife and I had to relocate over 50 toads that had bred in puddles on our pool cover because that many toads, all calling every night, was like a coach's whistle hooked up to an amplifier. We couldn't sleep at all. So, we caught every last one of them, drove to an isolated pond 5 miles away and dumped them all in.

We haven't had the problem since.

The Gray Tree Frog also has a trill tone, but it's call is so powerful that from a distance, it can sound like a spooky nearby whistle.

The Spotted Owl has 13 different calls, one of which has been described as an eerie whistle. If the pitch has a sudden upturn near the end, this could be your culprit.

It really depends specifically what your whistle sounds like.

Good luck finding your answer!

What get loud like burping noise and like cough

Supposedly have a bear. Know have mountain lion picture sleeping on my moms yard.

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Want to know what kinda animal sound like barking every night goes to pond

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