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Green frogs in the visitor center at Crabtree. You can tell them apart from Bullfrogs by checking to see if the ridge line that starts behind the eye continues on down the body. I went back through my photostream and corrected some of the frogs I had mislabeled. Frogs are by nature fairly expressionless, but I think this shot shows a little personality.
Oh! Walking on the prairie trail, I heard a chorus of frogs, even tho there was still ice on the ponds. Neat.
What does friend mean to you?
A word so wrongfully abused
Are you like me, confused
All included but you
Alone...
The sounds of silence often soothe
Shapes and colors shift with mood
Pupils widen and change their hue
Rapid brown avoid clear blue
Whys it have to be this way
Be this way
Flowers watched through wide brown eyes
A child sings an unclaimed tune
Innocence spins cold cocoon
Grow to see the pain too soon
~by Alice In Chains
This chap was sitting on our doorstep tonight. Slightly odd place to be. I 'think' it's a common frog, given the brownish patch behind the eye? He also hopped rather than walking...
One of the wood frogs that are plentiful on the trails and near the beaver pond at Caldwell lake. A few years ago their population seemed to be in a trough ... we would only see one every few months. They seem to have bounced back.
we watched the frog spawn cahnge to tadpoles and then frogs !!!! now they can eat all the slugs in my garden
These little fellows were all over the place. I don't blame them, so many insects about! This one is sitting in my hand.
Common Frog, ' Rana temporaria ( Anura )
The most widespread of the European frogs, the Common Frog is relatively robust, with a wide, blunt snout and two parallel ridges running down the back. Its colour is variable but the ground colour is usually yellowish to olive-brown, and the markings dark brown to almost black, The colour often intensifies during the breeding season, when the female develops a granular skin and the male's throat often turns bluish, Active during the day and the night, the northern populations hibernate under logs and stones, or in leaf mould or burrows,.
Size - 6 - 8 cm,
Young - Lays 1,000 to 4,000 eggs,
Diet - Slugs, snails, insects, worms, and other invertebrates,
Status - Common,
Similar Species - Marsh Frog ( R. ridibunda ), which is larger, and often greener,....
Not sure what this is yet... I know they have cane toads, so, maybe? I'll update when I have an actual ID. He was BIG and lived in our yard.
This ACEO is an original pencil crayon illustration of a red eye tree frog. These frogs breed in isolated ponds in lowland forest habitats. It is drawn on watercolor paper and is signed and dated on the back.
ACEO measures 2.5" x 3.5".
Mary Hoekstra
Among the frogs in my pond today, this one was lounging on a small low lotus leaf in the water with the towering big leaves of the lotus plant giving him shade.
While lying on the ground, feet in the water, photographing the emerging Stylurus flavipes, this frog appeared. In this picture I imagine the frog thinking "please move so I can have my dragonfly breakfast".
On the shore of the river, could be found many dragonfly wings, remains from frogs or birds preying on the emerging dragonflies.
July 2011.
Tisza River, north of Tiszafüred, just outside Egyek , Hungary.
DOGPILE!!!
Next to the flood by the Law Library in Agana. "Last one on top is a sore loser". =D
The little guy in back doesn't stand a chance against these brutes.
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From Evernote:
Montgros to St. Chely
Notes from the foot sackers. Good weather, not too hot. Still coughing. Same sQuashed toe. Rained yesterday. Classic country walks today through cow fields. Luckily dry so no mud or wet cow pats. Cows d'Aubrac are a big breed here and are beautiful. And free range, as are chickens (see photo). Climbed up for several hours then back down a steep andu painful path. Fortunately I ran into Anna of Australia again so we were able to give one another some moral support. Yesterday, hiking through another cow field we ran across Bernard, a man with two burros. He was halted in the field, and if I understood him correctly he was saying that the burros would not cross a very small puddle in the field and he was stuck. Also yesterday a stile that we had to climb over (photo of Anne post-stile). Not a welcomed obstacle. Saw some pigeons. Squashed frog ( see photo).Relived re French bread. Was worried in Le Puy that we would not find any real boulangeries. No fear. There have been many along the way and beautiful bread specimens in most. KB still pretty depressed about lack of frites. Also, no staplers in France. I have yet to see soup de poisson, buto are moving out of the Massif region and into Languedoc, so perhaps the menu will begin to change. Also tired of "pilgrim breakfast.". French way to save money by feeding you yesterday's stale bread with jam for breakfast. Not enough protein for a hungry pilgrim about to stomp o'er vale and hill. Lovely church (see photo) and garden at Aubrac. Interesting murals inside inside. One referenced "ultreia" which pilgrims used to say along with a response (something like "et sus eiea") apparently Latin from Hebrew and per haps something else before that. Meaning something like moving on and moving up (the latter spiritually). French squatter toilets exist still, I'm sorry to say. Have been desperate enough to use them and have not forgotten the technique. Interesting how standards begin to deteriorate on the road. Now a stall shower that only flood the bathroom a little is a hotel high point. Dinner tonight included confit of duck. Really Good. More cheese. Another tomme, another bleu.
Scavenge Challenge ... #9 cute critter ... frog.
I didn't think I would be lucky enough to find a real frog, so yesterday I took photos of two of my pretend ones. Today, this fellow was back in the mailbox after a long absence. I took him out and put him in the bird bath. He didn't like it much ... guess he was worried about becoming bird food. I got a few shots before he hopped out and disappeared.