{"id":179,"date":"2012-11-12T12:11:16","date_gmt":"2012-11-12T02:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/?p=179"},"modified":"2012-12-24T12:14:44","modified_gmt":"2012-12-24T02:14:44","slug":"good-rain-but-few-frogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/good-rain-but-few-frogs\/","title":{"rendered":"Good rain but few frogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As soon as I read that the first decent rainfall of the last three months was expected over the weekend, I immediately began planning where and who I\u2019d be able to take along frogging. Cooler temperatures were also expected following the rain so I was unsure as to how many frogs would be out. After watching the weather radar intently, I was disappointed to find that the Coast was largely missing out on good falls, with places like Kingaroy and Jimna receiving ~70 and ~40mls respectively. Good for them though! After Youth Group, I travelled to \u2018frog hollow\u2019 after scouring the sports oval beside the local PCYC and finding nothing but toads. All the <i>Litoria peronii<\/i> (Emerald-spotted treefrogs) that I\u2019d found previously at frog hollow were gone, though there were quite a few L. tylerii<\/i> (Laughing treefrogs) there, although out of my reach. <i>L. fallax<\/i> (Eastern sedgefrogs) were everywhere as usual. I\u2019m pretty sure I head <i>L. rubella<\/i> (Naked treefrogs) too but their calls were being drowned out by the laughing treefrogs.<\/p>\n<p>On my way back I saw something on a quiet country road. After closer inspection it was a <i>L. wilxoxi<\/i> (Stony-creek frog).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_204\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-204\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/l_wilcoxii_9.11.12.jpg\" alt=\"Litoria wilcoxii\" width=\"600\" height=\"402\" class=\"size-full wp-image-204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/l_wilcoxii_9.11.12.jpg 600w, https:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/l_wilcoxii_9.11.12-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-204\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><i>Litoria wilcoxii<\/i> (Stony-creek frog) female.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I decided to make a final stop into Palmwoods duckpond on my way home. The usual suspects were there, but I was pleasantly surprised to find a <i>L. caerulea<\/i> (Green treefrog) there.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_203\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-203\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/l_caerulea_9.11.12.jpg\" alt=\"Litoria caerulea\" width=\"600\" height=\"402\" class=\"size-full wp-image-203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/l_caerulea_9.11.12.jpg 600w, https:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/l_caerulea_9.11.12-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-203\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><i>Litoria caerulea<\/i> (Green treefrog)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The following evening was when we did receive more rain, so I headed out again at night but found nothing more than <i>Rhinella marina<\/i> (Cane toads) and Eastern Sedgefrogs (I did hear my first <i>L. gracilenta<\/i> (Graceful treefrog) for the season though!). The second site I visited (large paddocks with a creek beside) belongs to our neighbours, who I was told by have had several frog surveys carried out be the Government over the last 18 months (which has gotten me interested as to why\u2026).<\/p>\n<p>Anyways, the 16-odd mils of rain was great and should hopefully put some life back into the grass and gardens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As soon as I read that the first decent rainfall of the last three months was expected over the weekend,[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208,"href":"https:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions\/208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}