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Daily Frog August 14, 2012

Ready for my close-up

Uptown Frog came out in front of the plant that serves as the wall of his private residence and actually stayed quite still for a long while as I moved around with the tripod and camera. He dashed under as soon as my shadow altered the sun – I’d like to be able to use that to get better photos, but it’s hard to get into the right place and not have a shadow sometimes. I really love how his greens complement the greens in the plant’s stalks.

Daily Frog August 12, 2012

 

I can always count on Brave Frog to pose on a sunny rock for me! I am fascinated by the coloring – it’s not just the water making a difference. He is green at the head and brown at the back/legs. While this does help him blend into the algae-covered rocks (honestly, I do try to keep that from being too much of a problem) his bright green/black/white head also make him easy for me to spot, even without binoculars.

Daily Frog(s) August 5, 2012

 

Not the quality I’ve become used to, but I wanted to share how Cave Frog got his name. I had two chances before he went in too deep to see, and this was the better of the two. Because it’s not what I really hoped for, I’m including a bonus frog (a repeat for my twitter followers) – a shot of Eyeballs in the lilypads that I just LOVE.

Eyeballs is hanging out in the lilypads.

What’s with the frogs, anyway? — part 2

so I ordered tadpoles. The following conversation ensued:

Me: I ordered tadpoles for our pond.

Ken: Oh?

Me: I got 5 because they may not all survive.

Ken: I would’ve thought you’d order like a hundred if you were worried about them surviving.

Me: They were $2.70 each.

Ken: Five is good.

Of course, he was thinking about the teeny tiny tadpoles we saw as kids when kids were still allowed to wander around and play on their own. These were BIG tadpoles that will turn into leopard frogs or bullfrogs (didn’t know which at the time):

three tadpoles on day one. Look – LEGS!

tadpole rescue operations

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

They actually sent 6, but one was clearly wounded and died soon after they got put into the pond. Another died later and I don’t know why. I had to regularly rescue them from the skimmer – or I was ruining their day just when they’d found a nice place to hang out. It took MONTHS but eventually we spotted an actual FROG!

FROG! (taken with phone, so excuse the poor quality. but FROG!)

So I started taking pictures through the binoculars again, which I will spare you because they mostly suck. THEN we realized we had TWO frogs – and later THREE! Technically there is a possibility of a fourth but we’re assuming that tadpole did not survive. It looks like we have one leopard frog (Brave Frog, who apparently likes to pose for photos) and two bullfrogs (Cave Frog and Eyeballs).

My mom, who takes awesome photographs, got frustrated with my crappy pictures-through-binoculars and brought over her big Canon EOS Rebel and Giant Honkin’ Lens and Tripod and such. Which she left with me, and I started taking photos. I got some nice ones, so I kept going. It became a thing.

So that’s what’s with all the frogs.

Brave Frog posing on a sunny morning.