Frog catch-up

I’ve finally had a chance in-amongst all my uni assignments to post several photos I’ve taken since my last post entry, so here they are…

Litoria fallax
Litoria fallax (Eastern sedgefrog). Was going to promise my-self this would be the last of this species I’d post for a while…but you’ll see further on that I broke my promise to my-self.

We’d been over at the Grandparents place in Palmwoods when I thought I heard my mobile phone play a text-alert sound, which I’ve set to be the call of the Emerald-spotted treefrog (my ring tone is the call of the Laughing treefrog 😀 ). Anyway, turns out they were actual Litoria peronii (Emerald-spotted treefrogs) calling from the Palmwoods duck pond just down the road. On my way back home I stopped at the duck pond to see if I could find any. Indeed I did. There were plenty of calls from both this species and L. fallax.

Litoria peronii
Litoria peronii (Emerald-spotted treefrog)

A few days later during the warm weather we had, I decided to snoop around my university campus and see what I could find or hear. There were plenty of calling L. fallax and in the distance I could hear the calls of L. nasuta (Striped rocket frog) (this species is the one I’ve set to call as my alarm and wake me up on certain mornings 😛 ). There were many of these guys around wet ditches despite not having rained.

Litoria nasuta
Litoria nasuta (Striped rocket frog). These are the guys that are very hard to photograph without them jumping away all the time. However, most of them allowed me to get several photos 🙂
Litoria nasuta
Litoria nasuta (Striped rocket frog) calling.
Litoria nasuta
Litoria nasuta (Striped rocket frog)
Litoria nasuta
Litoria nasuta (Striped rocket frog) calling.

I’m beginning to think there’s something about these frogs and encounters with security guards as happened again that night.

Then just a couple of nights ago I heard, for the first time, a L. fallax calling from the reeds in our front-yard pond – hey, I was excited! Usually I can hear them calling from everywhere else around the neighbourhood but the pond. So, I had to take a few shots whilst at the same time fiddling with the camera to get the best photographs I could manage.

Litoria fallax
Litoria fallax (Eastern sedgefrog) calling.
Litoria fallax
Litoria fallax (Eastern sedgefrog) calling.
Litoria fallax
Litoria fallax (Eastern sedgefrog) calling.

Well, that concludes this catch-up post. We’ve had a few mills of rain recently and I’m looking forward to what’s forecast this Summer!