One for Rel

[ATJ]

A froglet of Peron's tree frog, <i>Litoria peronii</i>.

Saw this little one today around our tadpool (pool with tadpoles). It was left over from last Summer and spent Winter as a tadpole and must have emerged yesterday or today.

And, yes, it has a mite just below it's eye (crop to 100% of the above image)

[Matt. K]

Nice work Andrew! That mite...could be a mud crab? A woK and some chillies?

[ATJ]

I only noticed the mite while processing the photos, so I took another shot of the mite with the extension tube. This is still cropped but not as much as the earlier shot.


I then made the froglet have a swim and it looks like the mite is gone now.

[blacknstormy]

Hey Andrew

Thank you - a handsome little chap he is too !!! Judging by the size of that tail he has only just just emerged ??
The mite appears a little squished, so he may have just picked it up incidentally when he was in the water, which explains why it washed off when he had a 'dip'

I do believe it is going to be a good summer for frogs Damo and I spent the night looking at green-thighed frogs - we had over 140 mm of rain at Southport in the last 2 nights (just having a look at some shots now) - unfortunately when we were there they were all calling but hadn't started going into amplexus yet
- but the rain got VERY heavy, and the lightning was getting a bit too close for comfort (and Damo reminded me that I have already fried one flash in similar circumstances, and he wouldn't be so understanding if I did it to the new camera LOL), so we chose to hightail it back to cover .. and then got a phone call this morning from my dad at 5am telling me to get home and check out house as Ipswich had over 250mm in rain last night. House is fine .. new pool is extremely full, and the new rainwater tank is overflowing
There was some pretty interesting flooding on the way though !!!

Hugs
and more photos please Andrew
Rel

[ATJ]

Judging by the size of that tail he has only just just emerged ??

Yes, I would have said yesterday (the day I took the photo) or the day before. I'm sure I saw it in the tadpool only a day or so earlier.

I do believe it is going to be a good summer for frogs

It will be good down here, as well. We already have new Litoria peronii tadpoles in the tadpool from recent mating.

We have one of those clamshell wading pools which has Limnodynastes peronii tadpoles in it. (The male was calling from a tub I use to catch rainwater and the next day there were fertilised eggs. As I pump water from tub, I moved the egg mass to the wading pool and now there are hundreds of tadpoles which seem to be doing well.

I frequently hear Litoria verreauxii calls both from home and while walking the dogs. Their call travels such a long way I have found it difficult to work out where they are.

I frequently hear L. dentata on one stretch of the afternoon dog walk.

I frequently hear L. fallax all around Glenbrook lagoon. I wish I had a longer macro lens as I'd go hunting for shots.

After rain, I hear a lot of Crinia signifera calling from the pools of water that form after the rain and we even get them in the backyard from time to time.