Frogs

kandagal · Guru

Frogs

Dunco · Senior Member

The story is that if the frogs are thriving, then the ecology of the area is spot on.

Beth54 · Guru

I love the sound of frogs at night. Must be a nice spot.

willem269 · Senior Member

Speaking of frogs, here is what I shot yesterday morning in our garden. The old ones on the outsides are a bit darker than the young ones. Some of them are very tame, as you can see on the other pic showing a nosy one when I did some work in the pond.

milo · Guru

good pics Willem , i love the sounds of the bush..

Happywanderer · The Master

Oh, I love frogs kandagal, will put that one in my book

Cruising Granny · Guru

They look like burrowing toads which are very common in the Kimberley region.
Mind you it's difficult to identify some species from others.
I was entertained for hours by spininfex frogs, green tree frogs and burrowing toads around the compound and house on the cattle stations and in the swimming pool.
They also kept me very busy cleaning up after them - the droppings and slime was everywhere.

Esmeralda · Guru

At my parents' place @ Thornton near Eildon they get tiny frogs about an inch or a little over and they climb up the lounge room windows and the screen door (not in the winter though) to get the flying insects.

Elle on Wheels · Guru

Frogs in my mind are the best sound you can ever hear - they are an indicator of the ecological health of your immediate environment. Where I am we get motorbike frogs and when the boys are revving up from Sept through to Nov it sounds like the grand prix or whatever is the equivalent - they get really loud and i love it. We also get lots of other frogs and it is a wonderful experience to hear them all going off. I find frogs hibrinating in my tool boxes and all sorts of odd places. When I find them I make sure they are not disturbed. my favourite sounds are frog calls and magpie songs.

NeilandRaine · Guru

Love frogs but I'm not to sure about in the tropics and you need to visit the loo late at night and there is a bloody great big green frog watching you.

Happywanderer · The Master

Me too Elle, frogs and maggies singing. Love all bird song but especially the maggies, reminds me of my mum, she had a pet maggie when she was young.
Moonie Qld toilets at the powered sites, at least 8 frogs sitting on the walls in the toilets. Cute. This is one of them.

ken thomas · Guru

They scare the crap out of you when you feel them on your bum
Ken

willem269 · Senior Member

On our last trip one night we had stored the folding chairs under the vehicle. I was about half a mile away (or a bit less) when my wife folded out her chair, Man, could I hear her clearly! Did not know her voice went that high.By far not as nice as our green frogs in and around the pond.

Elle on Wheels · Guru

I consider frogs appearing as some sort of message from the cosmos - they turn up in all sorts of places and scare the bejezus out of you whether the contact is by hand or bum or whatever. Once you realise it is a frog then the adrenaline drops and all is well with the world.

Boroma577 · Guru

milo wrote:
i love the sounds of the bush..

WOW, I love your comment milo, it is one I often use myself. It's amazing how many people look at you in a strange way when you say it.

Non campers and city folk will often say "what sounds, the bush does not make any sounds" and how very wrong they are.

What really niggles me is the camper who comes out into the bush and setting up camp and turns the radio in their car, doors wide open and music blaring.

-- Edited by Boroma577 on Saturday 27th of August 2011 10:42:40 AM

Gerty Dancer · Guru

Boroma577 wrote:

What really niggles me is the camper who comes out into the bush and setting up camp and turns the radio in their car, doors wide open and music blaring.

-- Edited by Boroma577 on Saturday 27th of August 2011 10:42:40 AM

Oh yes, you are soooo right! They even think they are being kind, sharing their "music" with everybody!

We had an amazing moment the other day, had walked to a lookout in Kalbarri NP, there were a couple of other people there, and nobody was talking much, we were just enjoying being there in peace. Then there came this scratchy noise, and we realised it emanated from the earphones of a young person who had just arrived. I cant understand such a need for constant noise/music?

jules47 · The Happy Helper

Have some little frogs live in my toilet cistern - don't mind them in there, but they come out and poop all over the place - don't often see them in the bowl, I usually make lots of noise going in there. But had a toad outside the other night - Esmerelda was staying - she yelled, but I got rid of it with the broom. Occasionally find a green one sitting on the verandah - just leave them there, but sometimes one gets comfortable in the metal letterbox - shoo it out - it will boil in there.

Esmeralda · Guru

jules47 wrote:
Have some little frogs live in my toilet cistern - don't mind them in there, but they come out and poop all over the place - don't often see them in the bowl, I usually make lots of noise going in there. But had a toad outside the other night - Esmerelda was staying - she yelled, but I got rid of it with the broom. Occasionally find a green one sitting on the verandah - just leave them there, but sometimes one gets comfortable in the metal letterbox - shoo it out - it will boil in there.

I wouldn't call it yelling biggrin You should hear me yell

The was a small frog in the power box at Charleville this morning - frightened the man next to me who warned me of a large frog in the power box. Poor little thing more frightened of us!! Don't mind small frogs but hate toads. Used to have a large green frog who lived in my toilet bowl in Townsville when I was staying with friends. Very disconcerting when going to sit - my friend's partner had to lift it out but it seemed to find its way back!!

jules47 · The Happy Helper

I expected it to be a frog caught in the pipes with my plumbing problem, but was tree roots, think the frogs can just swim through.

Happywanderer · The Master

I had a little frog sitting on the top/ back of my gas hot water cylinder. No matter how many times I picked it up and put it somewhere else, it would come back. was worried it would get cooked there. Its disappeared now, not sure where its gone.
Hate Cane toads, don't mind (ahem) getting rid of them when I find them.

-- Edited by Happywanderer on Saturday 27th of August 2011 06:12:00 PM

Cruising Granny · Guru

In the bathrooms on both cattle stations I worked on there was a gallery of green frogs at shower time. They didn't understand my need for "privacy" so I just had to get used to them.
It was their action of sliding down the porcelain during the flushing procedure which still makes me laugh when I remember it.
We just had to learn to live with them.
Do you have cane toads where you live HW?

Happywanderer · The Master

No CG. When I lived just out of Brisbane about 8 or 9 years ago. The backyard would be full of them every night. I would have to get them before they got my little foxy. Twice I had to rush Mindy into the laundry and wash her face and mouth out with water after she had grabbed at one. They are horrible things.

Boroma577 · Guru

Found this little fella on the battery of the car at xmas time...he seemed quite content to stay there too.

Cruising Granny · Guru

I've found them in all sorts of domestic orifices. At the top of the shower curtain, under the toilet rims, outside on kitchen window and around any night lights enjoying the bugs.
Cane toads are another critter I don't mess with. Green frogs, burrowing toads and spinifex frogs probably wouldn't hurt the animals.

jules47 · The Happy Helper

Friend is in the Naval Reserve in Darwin, she gets her whites laundered by a Chinese lady up there. Anyway, she went to pick them up one day, and the lady says, "you'll never guess what? laundered your trousers, took them to the press, and something moved in the pocket - put hand in and there was a little green frog - still alive, after being laundered!" So they are great survivors!

ChiChi1 · Guru

I haven't heard or seen a frog for so long. Been too dry here. Can't wait to experience all these things.