{"id":624,"date":"2013-11-01T11:30:50","date_gmt":"2013-11-01T01:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/?p=624"},"modified":"2014-05-11T18:58:38","modified_gmt":"2014-05-11T08:58:38","slug":"a-great-week-on-the-frog-front","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/a-great-week-on-the-frog-front\/","title":{"rendered":"A Great Week on the Frog Front"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week began with the day I’d been working towards the entire year – submission date of my Honours thesis! Despite the many hiccups throughout the year, I was able to cross the finish line – though not without the help and support from so many people who have been acknowledged.<\/p>\n

A day or two later, the first storms rolled in – which I’d been waiting a good month for. Despite not living up to their looks, and earlier warnings, the eight or so millimetres we received was enough to get some frogs out – and froggers too! I travelled up to Mapleton to the property of my former high school teacher; Ken, to venture through his yard. Some people are fortunate enough to have Great barred frogs (Mixophyes fasciolatus<\/i>) hopping through their yard, whilst listening to the calls of Southern Orange-eyed treefrogs (Litoria chloris<\/i>) from a pond in the neighbour’s yard. Once again, the Bleating treefrogs (Litoria dentata<\/i>) played hard to find, nor did they call. However, whilst we’d usually find cane toads out the front of our property boundary, Scarlet-sided pobblebonks (Limnodynastes terraereginae<\/i>) and Great barred frogs were found along his dirt road. It occurs to me there is a distinct class difference here from most of us lesser fortunate folk, with regards to frog diversity here.<\/p>\n

\"Scarlet-sided<\/a>
Scarlet-sided pobblebonk (Limnodynastes terraereginae<\/i>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Scarlet-sided<\/a>
Scarlet-sided pobblebonk (Limnodynastes terraereginae<\/i>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Great<\/a>
Great barred frog (Mixophyes fasciolatus<\/i>), juvenile<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After returning to my car, I realised the upper-class residents have a different problem to deal with than we do. This is beacause whilst driving back along the road to Mapleton town, I had to avoid driving over about half a dozen Great barred frogs on the dirt road, whilst cane toads (Rhinella marina<\/i>) were few and far between!<\/p>\n

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Two nights later, I re-united with Eva Ford from the MRCCC (Google the name). I was last frog monitoring with her back in January of this year (whilst on work experience there), so I was looking forward to catching up with her and visiting some of her top monitoring sites where Giant barred frogs (Mixophyes iteratus<\/i>) are often found.<\/p>\n

It turned out to be a great night for Great barred frogs, who were constantly in conversation at two sites, whilst the Giant barred frogs could not be found, nor heard. I did find a monstrous cane toad though, and we heard and found a few Cascade treefrogs (Litoria pearsoniana<\/i>) later, too.<\/p>\n

\"Cane<\/a>
Cane toad (Rhinella marina<\/i>), female<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It wasn’t until the third and fourth site that we found the Giant’s, albeit only three, including a juvenile.<\/p>\n

\"Giant<\/a>
Giant barred frog (Mixophyes iteratus<\/i>), female<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Giant<\/a>
Giant barred frog (Mixophyes iteratus<\/i>), female<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Giant<\/a>
Giant barred frog (Mixophyes iteratus<\/i>), juvenile female<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It was about 1 am by the time I got back home, which is to be expected after monitoring four sites! I’m anticipating how much longer the night will be when we return in January after some rain \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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