View allAll Photos Tagged frog
A couple more from the frogs. They've all cleared off from the pond now, but lots of frogspawn which is good to see...
I can't believe how long it has been that I have been around but it has been a very crazy last few month and I'm sure a lot of you out there will agree with me!!!
I hope everybody is well. I'll will try to make my way around and check out what you have been posting.
Take care and stay safe!
The green tree frogs have been plenty around here this year. This guy was sitting on our front-door ;-)
This pretty frog has smooth, bright skin, generally green, although there are also specimens that are brown or yellowish. A characteristic trait is the black line running from the edges of the eyes, with horizontal pupils, to the back of the eardrum. It also has suckers on the toes of its front and rear legs.
Its cryptic colouring, blending with the vegetation where it lives, is a strategy to foil predators.
Its area of distribution ranges from North Africa to southwest Europe. On the Iberian Peninsula, populations are concentrated in specific points of Andalusia, Catalonia, the Basque Country and Minorca. This species is quite generalist, living in all types of temporary and permanent bodies of water and a large variety of environments.
They primarily feed on insects as adults, while the tadpoles scratch the surfaces of aquatic plants or walls to absorb detritus, algae, etc.
To attract females during the reproductive period, the males emit their croaking songs en masse. The female lays 140 to 680 eggs in small clusters of 3 or 4, which stick to plants under the water. The tadpoles hatch after 8 to 15 days, completing metamorphosis 2 or 3 months later.
If you've viewed my previous image "Hmmm how about manual focus?" you'd have read how I had been taking images of a frog..... this is it!!
Hope you like this!
Be sure to View LARGE on Black for best results!
Have an awesome day and weekend everyone!!
Thanks too for any comments, views or favorites!
A grey tree frog (Hyla versicolor). When young, this frog is a mottled green color. At some point, it changes from green to grey as it becomes an adult frog. This guy was one of the smaller frogs we've seen, but was already all grey. They can also vary their color depending on what their sitting on from light to dark.
This guy was found in our clumped up old grill cover. I leave it on the edge of the deck at night, and overnight, the frogs sometime climb in for shelter. In the morning, we check to see if any visitors have shown up!
Brewster, Massachusetts
Cape Cod - USA
Photo by brucetopher
© Bruce Christopher 2016
All Rights Reserved
...always learning - critiques welcome.
No use without permission.
Please email for usage info.
This tree frog was sat in the kitchen cupboard when I arrived at the lion camp. Apparently he had been there a week and defied all attempts to be moved. We never saw him move, well only a couple of inches over a week; he was still there when I left.
During my last stay in Northern Germany I visited the same site as last year for a second take on the European common spadefood. This time, despite the terribly dry and hot summer, I was able to find six Individuals during the night and early morning, five of which had just recently undergone metamorphosis. I later learned, that the population in question acts as one of two donor populations in a reintroduction effort. Some spawn is harvested and tadpoles are reared in captivity for head starting purposes. Some of the metamorphs then are not used for the reintroduction program but returned to the donor population to compensate for the prior harvest. A batch of such individuals had been returned to the site just before my little night hike and so accounted for the relative high number of animals I encountered. I am deeply grateful to people working on projects just like this, doing their best to sustain and reconnect populations of threatened species in an increasingly fragmented landscape.
Abgrabung bei Trappenkamp.
Many thanks to all those who View, Comment and or Favorite My Photos. It is greatly appreciated. Scott :)
Went out looking for early Colt's Foot to photograph yesterday and also found this little fellow. It has been many moons since I managed to get a shot of one of these. They are congregating in little vernal ponds to mate and I hear them all the time. But getting close enough for a shot can be a tricky maneuver.
© Harshith JV
Common name: Malabar gliding frog / Malabar flying frog
Scientific name: Rhacophorus malabaricus
Place: Coorg, Karnataka
Date: July 15, 2017
File name: IMG_2920.upload.JPG
I heard a bull frog behind me in the culvert. Turned around and there was not one, but two!! At first I thought they were mating, but then somebody got very annoyed and they just went at each other. Standing on their legs in the water, wrapping their arms around each other and swaying back and forth as if they were dancing. Never saw anything like it. They probably danced for thirty seconds. In the end one disappeared never to be seen again.
Desert Tree Frog (Litoria rubella)
--Taken shortly before the previous image of this guy, but I edited the capture date so it appears above it in the photo stream purely so it makes a checked pattern. Unfortunately that doesn't show up on either the app or mobile website, so you'll just have to imagine it.
This little frog has taken up home in my ornamental pond, probably because the drought has dried up his natural habitat. He likes to sit next to the LED lights and catch insects attracted in the late evening.
Thanks for the visit, comments, awards, invitations and favorites.
Please don't use this image on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit permission.
© All rights reserved
Contact: martin.matyas(at)hotmail.com
Another frog image from a couple of days ago.
Taken during a macro shoot with long time friend and fellow flickr tog Joe Micallef at Hunter Botanic Gardens (Heatherbrae, NSW; Australia).
This little fella was kind enough to pose in a spot that allowed us to get close and personal with him!
Hope you like this!!
Thanks for any comments, views or favorites - much appreciated!!
Have a wonderful day and week everyone!