{"id":118,"date":"2012-09-07T10:32:32","date_gmt":"2012-09-07T00:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/?p=118"},"modified":"2012-12-24T10:41:26","modified_gmt":"2012-12-24T00:41:26","slug":"persistence-pays-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/persistence-pays-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Persistence pays off"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thursday was forecast to reach 26\u00b0C, and today (Friday) expected to reach 29\u00b0C, so of course I wasn\u2019t going to let the opportunity to go frogging go amiss! So I contacted a friend for permission onto their property in the back of Woombye, who\u2019s property includes a decent sized lake. As I\u2019m travelling their I hear Litoria fallax (Eastern Sedgefrogs) by the hundreds, but of course, once I arrive there\u2019s hardly a croak, except for a couple of Adelotus brevis (Tusked frog). However, in the distance were the laughs (calls) of L. peronii and L. tylerii (Emerald-spotted treefrogs and laughing treefrogs). Of course, they weren\u2019t calling from the property I had access to! Anyway, I searched around but didn\u2019t find much, apart from two Rhinella marina (Cane toads) and a small mammal (who disappeared before I could get a better look at). A few hundred metres up the road though, I could hear at least 5 species made up of those I\u2019d already heard as well as Limnodynastes peronii (Striped-marsh frog) and a species I hadn\u2019t heard in the \u2018wild\u2019 yet, Litoria nasuta (Striped rocket-frog)!<\/p>\n

After giving up on trying to access these guys, I drove into Palmwoods, keeping an ear out for frog calls. I thought I\u2019d give Palmwoods duck pond a try (cause that\u2019s one place I can access!). I wasn\u2019t disappointed with what I heard there (laughing treefrogs and eastern sedge-frogs), but couldn\u2019t get to them as they were calling from over-hanging vegetation over the pond (or lake). There was a cane toad I found relaxing in the shallows, so I had to take a photo of something!<\/p>\n

\"Rhinella
Rhinella marina<\/i> (cane toad) partly submerged in water. They sit in water to keep their
skin moist and to allow oxygen exchange between water and skin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Once leaving there, I tried finding a lake I knew existed in amongst a relatively new housing estate towards the back of Palmwoods, but got lost in amongst the maze and outed as soon as I found the main road \ud83d\ude1b (though amongst the sardined housed were conglomerations of calling eastern sedge-frogs, making quite a racket (not that I minded). Still disappointed, I thought I\u2019d try a last-ditch attempt to find and photograph some frogs I\u2019d previously heard (two weeks ago) right out the back of Palmwoods.<\/p>\n

I drove along the dusty dirt road, right to the end where the laughing treefrogs were calling last time, and indeed were there again\u2026on private property. With a sigh, I did a three-point turn and was heading back down the road, but stopped just past the above mentioned property as I\u2019d heard frogs calling closer to the road. I got out, leaving the head-lights on and found a small dam, surrounded by dense vegetation but home to at least 5 frog species I could hear (which was an effort over the hundreds of eastern sedgefrogs calling at once). I recorded some more calls, and was about to head back to the car when I spotted a small cleared path on one side of the dam. Bargain! (as this post title suggests). It allowed me to get right beside the water where I found two emerald spotted treefrogs! Smile for the camera (I sure was!). So below are two of the few photos I managed to take.<\/p>\n

Frog calls from back of Palmwoods (Seeings there\u2019s more words than photos I thought I should include something else).<\/p>\n

\"Litoria
Litoria peronii (Emerald-spotted treefrog)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Litoria
Litoria peronii (Emerald-spotted treefrog)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

All these photos were taken on my little Sony digital camera, though I hope to be using a Sony DSLR soon (not mine though\u2026). I hope to go out there again tonight \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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