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The water garden at Blue Jay Point County Park is alive with frogs on a rainy evening. This was one of many Green Frogs spotted on our night hike.
This small frog was sitting on a rock as we gathered for a group picture. It must have wondered what it had done to attract all the attention it got.
I rescued this frog from my cat Kimchi's clutches. He seems unscathed despite having been carried around in her mouth.
All I can hear outside my bedroom window lately has been these little fella lapping up all the rain and warm weather we've been having lately.
I took a few photos and couldn't decide which i like best so I'll leave it to you to decide which one you prefer...
"One small hop for a frog, one giant leap for all frogkind."
Before humans landed on the moon, the frogs had way back. We just haven't noticed because they've stayed on the dark side of it. Here is one of the exploration bases they've established. A frogstronaut leaves the habitat station about to make a groundbreaking discovery, while another prepares to enter a rocket and explore new unknowns. Seems as though one frogstronaut's tether has broken... Hope he comes back with an interesting story! All the while, comets zoom, and meteors crash while distant stars and nebulae glimmer from afar.
To humans, space is extraordinarily vast but, to these little frog explorers, it's nigh infinite! An unending realm with unlimited possibilities.
Yes, incredible as it may seem, and despite the temperatures recorded in Ireland as low as -13 Celsius last week, here is a large fat (possible gravid) frog, which was on our doorstep tonight. The weather warmed up over the last two days and huge rain storms have hit us, and somehow here is the result. A mystery to me.
how two of my closest friends have been frog lovers! This frog puzzle of my friend Cheryl's makes me laugh. He's sitting atop a class case of her collection of frogs.
My high school friend Pat and I started exchanging frogs cause she once told me my boyfriend Tommy looked like a frog in his sweatpants. It was a great private joke for the whole relationship. I can't figure out now why!
ANSH: Puzzling
This little tree frog has a huge voice!
7DoS "Beginning With … F" "Contrast Thursday"
Used in Our Daily Challenge: No Words Photogame www.flickr.com/groups/ourdailychallenge/discuss/721576236...
This frog was a very patient one, so that I had enough time to make some photos of it. I tried intensively to get at least one eye as sharp as possible. This was not very easy without a real macro-lens.
My setup was: Nikkor 55-200/4-5.6 AF-S VR with Canon Close-up Lens 500 D
The Pacific chorus frog (Pseudacrus regilla) is the pop star of the frog world. Every spring males find a breeding pond and sing to attract females - almost as if saying 'how you doing' as loud as possible. With so many males competing to attract a mate, their singing can be surprisingly loud. Even more surprising is the Pacific chorus frog is no bigger than five centimetres in length, making their considerable voice all the more impressive. Though the Pacific chorus frogs are most vocal in the spring while breeding, they can still be heard the rest of the year singing in rainstorms.
Learn more - neilfisher.com/blog/the-swayze-frog/
Shot was taken just before midnight.
Canon 5DmkII
Canon 100mm f/2.8L IS Macro
2x Canon 580ex’s via Pocket Wizard FlexTT’s – both lights had LightDomeXS’s
1/200sec
f/16
100mm
ISO 100
TAXONOMY
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Dendrobatidae
Genus/species: Phyllobates lugubris
GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS: Small frogs, less than an inch in length, with the females slightly larger than the males. The head is longer than wide with a round snout. The back is jet black with paired dorsolateral stripes, of various colors including yellow, orange, gold or turquoise. They also have a thinner lighter turquoise or white ventrolateral stripe on each side from the tip of the snout to and along the front limbs.
DISTRIBUTION/HABITAT: This species inhabits the humid lowland and the premontane zone along the Atlantic coast of southeastern Nicaragua through Costa Rica to Central Panama.
The frogs live in the leaf litter of the forest floor, near slow-moving water.
DIET IN THE WILD: Eat ants, mites, beetles, and spiders.
REPRODUCTION: Breeding occurs in the wet season. Males call to attract females, with a chortle that sounds like a hand rubbing an inflated balloon. A pair works together to create a ground nest in dry leaf litter. The female then deposits her eggs, which the male fertilizes. The male takes over and periodically moistens the eggs in the nest until the eggs hatch. He then carries 5 to 10 tadpoles at a time on his back to aquatic rearing sites. In about 2 months the tadpoles metamorphose into froglets that are about a half an inch long.
MORTALITY/LONGEVITY: Most poison dart frogs can live from 10 to 15 years in captivity. In general poison dart frogs have few predators. Their bright colors warn potential predators that they are toxic, even though in reality many of them merely taste bad because of sour but low potency toxins in their skins. Thus this group provides examples of both aposematic coloration and Batesian mimicry.
CONSERVATION: IUCN Red List Least concern (LC) This species is relatively safe due to its wide distribution, tolerance to modification to its habitat, and its fairly large population.
REMARKS: The family Dendrobatidae, containing 11 genera, is the family of poison dart frogs. They are known for their brightly colored skin, and the ability to secrete toxins from their skin. However, the toxin from only three species of Phyllobates has been documented as being used to poison the dart tips of blowguns for animal hunting.
References
California Academy of Sciences Docent Animal Attractions 2017
Amphibiaweb amphibiaweb.org/cgi/amphib_query?where-genus=Phyllobates&...
IUCN Red List www.iucnredlist.org/details/55263/0
Encyclopedia of Life eol.org/pages/1025277/details
Ron's Wordpress shortlink wp.me/p1DZ4b-1t1
Ron's flickr www.flickr.com/photos/cas_docents/14933390504/in/set-7215...