Frogging at Burrum Heads – Night 1

It’s been 12 months since the Family and I came up here (to Burrum Heads) for our holiday and I’ve been looking forward to ‘officially’ meeting some of the anuran residents up here. The past two years we’ve come up was during the La Nina floods and the frogs were everywhere, but I wasn’t so familiar with frogs then.

I’d been praying for rain (literally!) and it turns out that the evening we travelled up here, it rained pretty much non-stop from Cooran to Burrum Heads. Either we were following the storms or they were following us. Either way, it kept the trip interesting whilst we tried to avoid hitting any frogs or toads on the way up (there were many).

It was 12:10am before I was able to get outside any do some frogging on/beside a few quiet roads up here cause I wanted to take advantage of the rain (albeit only ~15 mils). Below is a few of what I found.

Litoria caerulea
Litoria caerulea (Green Treefrog). There appeared to be a family of this species as there were two other brown coloured frogs nearby.
Platyplectrum ornatum
Platyplectrum ornatum (Ornate Burrowing Frog). I love these little guys. There’s lots of them up here in this sandy soil.
Litoria nasuta
Litoria nasuta (Striped Rocketfrog)
Litoria nasuta
Litoria nasuta (Striped Rocketfrog)
Litoria gracilenta
Litoria gracilenta (Graceful Treefrog)
Litoria gracilenta
Litoria gracilenta (Graceful Treefrog)
‘What did you say?’
Platyplectrum ornatum (Ornate Burrowing Frog). 'Huh? What's that flash?'
Platyplectrum ornatum (Ornate Burrowing Frog).
‘Huh? What’s that flash?’
Platyplectrum ornatum
Platyplectrum ornatum (Ornate Burrowing Frog).
‘Aww darn! He took my photo!’
Litoria fallax
Litoria fallax (Eastern Sedgefrog).
‘Don’t look at me’.
Litoria fallax
Litoria fallax (Eastern Sedgefrog).
‘Stop looking at me!’
Litoria fallax
Litoria fallax (Eastern Sedgefrog).
‘Ok, whatever – this is my better side’.
Litoria rubella (Naked Treefrog). You can often hear these guys calling after rain  -one of my favourite calls.
Litoria rubella (Naked Treefrog). You can often hear these guys calling after rain – one of my favourite calls.