Froggies Froggies Froggies!

[guppiecat]

I hereby declare June to be the month of the frog. I am kicking things off with these photos of American frogs.

A few weeks, I was walking around and heard this amazing noise. There was a little spot near a lake where there seemed to be a little overflow pond. All along the berm separating this pond from the lake came an amazing chorus of frogs. It was incredible. At one point, I was talking to my mother and she couldn't hear me due to the ambient noise of frogs. I have never in my life heard so many frogs.

What was more amazing is that I was clearly hearing about a hundred frogs and I couldn't see a single one. Turns out that American frogs blend right in to the mud. It takes a focusing flashlight to see them, and several flashes to take good photos of them. Lucky for all of you, I had them.

The set is here (warning, contains a few images of cold clammy hardcore frog sex).




Sometimes froggies just float in the water.

Sometimes, though, they get out and do this:







And this





(More coming soon!)

Comments

[jennkitty.livejournal.com]

Thank you!!!

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

They look splodey. Did you get any pix of that?

K.

[guppiecat]

Nope. Nor did I get any photos of predators eating the frogs that are totally zoned out while they do this... which is kinda surprising, actually.

If I were a heron, I would totally stay up late and have tons of frogsnacks at night.

[trishtrash.livejournal.com]

Wonderful froggies! Particularly pleasing is the way that they go literally cross-eyed with effort (or with flash focusing, but I prefer to believe that blowing one's throat out to double the size of one's head takes work).

[guppiecat]

Yeah, it's not the flash doing it. They were like that with just a normal light as well.

[itskoi.livejournal.com]

Beautiful! And till now I'd been frog-neutral I must say. ;-)