I’ve been thinking about a frog I saw out at the Ross Dam recently and he somehow had gone missing in my photofiles, but I found him again and thought I’d show a collection of shots taken since my return to Towntown and there’s not a flower to be seen :)
But first the Dam Frog.
and now a white lipped Green Tree Frog sitting on a leaf of an Agathis robusta; these trees are really cool, when they are young, some of the juvenile leaves sprout straight from the trunk, just like what this frog is sitting on :)
and this guy is hanging around in the fronds of a palm… I pulled an old dead frond off, and at least half a dozen little fellas were in behind it…
Toad Alert Toad Alert Toad Alert!
If you don’t like the Uglier side of Amphibians, look away for the next two slides….
The BIGGEST Cane Toad I have ever seen…. spotted yesterday at Paluma, this guy was huge!!!
and this is where they come from….
and it’s not all amphibious, here’s a skink.
and another skink.
and another skink trying to hide….
And there are Mammals, well Marsupials… here’s a wallaby on some grass.
and a Dam Wallaby on some rocks…
I always heard stories from Poms when they would visit us in South Aussie and they would say “Where are the Kangaroos? We heard there were Kangaroos on the streets?” Well maybe not in the suburbs of Adelaide, but there were some on the fringes… but here in Towntown, they are around the place…
em tasol.
pain master said:
I always heard stories from Poms when they would visit us in South Aussie and they would say “Where are the Kangaroos? We heard there were Kangaroos on the streets?” Well maybe not in the suburbs of Adelaide, but there were some on the fringes… but here in Towntown, they are around the place…
we were entertaining an o/s work colleague of Mr BG and was taking him to Healesville Zoo to see some native animals. We were just explaining that you don’t really see kangaroos on the streets, when lo and behold a mob of kangaroos appeared and hopped alongside the road for a while before heading back across the paddock and into the treeline. You couldn’t have asked for a better view of some wild kangaroos, but of course he is now totally convinced that roos can be seen on the streets….
>of course he is now totally convinced that roos can be seen on the streets….
Lucky no one told him about the taipan tying competitions, the emu rides or the croc wrestling…
CollieWA said:
>of course he is now totally convinced that roos can be seen on the streets….Lucky no one told him about the taipan tying competitions, the emu rides or the croc wrestling…
chucklechucklechuckle…
Beautiful shots :)
Awesome as your flower shots are, froggies and skinks are so much cooler than flowers :D
I always had a soft spot for the gekkos in Darwin while I was there in the eighties..
And the big green tree frogs, but I had a shocking experience of one jumping from the bottom of the toilet seat I was sitting on, to…..
CollieWA said:
I always had a soft spot for the gekkos in Darwin while I was there in the eighties..And the big green tree frogs, but I had a shocking experience of one jumping from the bottom of the toilet seat I was sitting on, to…..
I can see how that might be quite startling :D
MiL was put off bobtails for a similar reason, although the incident occurred on a golf course rather than in the privacy of a loo… :D
pain master said:
I’ve been thinking about a frog I saw out at the Ross Dam recently and he somehow had gone missing in my photofiles, but I found him again and thought I’d show a collection of shots taken since my return to Towntown and there’s not a flower to be seen :)But first the Dam Frog.
Pardon my ignorance, but is that a pobblebonk or a froglet…and don’t you just love those biiiiig dark eyes? :)
bluegreen said:
pain master said:I always heard stories from Poms when they would visit us in South Aussie and they would say “Where are the Kangaroos? We heard there were Kangaroos on the streets?” Well maybe not in the suburbs of Adelaide, but there were some on the fringes… but here in Towntown, they are around the place…
we were entertaining an o/s work colleague of Mr BG and was taking him to Healesville Zoo to see some native animals. We were just explaining that you don’t really see kangaroos on the streets, when lo and behold a mob of kangaroos appeared and hopped alongside the road for a while before heading back across the paddock and into the treeline. You couldn’t have asked for a better view of some wild kangaroos, but of course he is now totally convinced that roos can be seen on the streets….
They can be in Sussex Inlet. The tourists love them; many of the locals hate ‘em. Driving around the streets any afternoon jsut before dusk and you’ll see heaps in the frontyards and in the bush. A few years ago my SIL had one jump out in the middle of the main drag and hit her car at 10:00am
pain master said:
The BIGGEST Cane Toad I have ever seen…. spotted yesterday at Paluma, this guy was huge!!!
How big? I’ve seen one that was bread and butter plate size.
Bubba Louie said:
pain master said:
The BIGGEST Cane Toad I have ever seen…. spotted yesterday at Paluma, this guy was huge!!!
How big? I’ve seen one that was bread and butter plate size.
Like he’s saying……. “What!!”
Lucky1 said:
Bubba Louie said:
pain master said:
The BIGGEST Cane Toad I have ever seen…. spotted yesterday at Paluma, this guy was huge!!!
How big? I’ve seen one that was bread and butter plate size.
Like he’s saying……. “What!!”
When we first moved out here, I had Sonny Joe a month later and there, one night, was a toad whose size was easily as big a Sonny Joe’s head when he was a couple of weeks old…no kidding…
Dinetta said:
Lucky1 said:
Bubba Louie said:How big? I’ve seen one that was bread and butter plate size.
Like he’s saying……. “What!!”
When we first moved out here, I had Sonny Joe a month later and there, one night, was a toad whose size was easily as big a Sonny Joe’s head when he was a couple of weeks old…no kidding…
I believe you.
When we first moved out here, I had Sonny Joe a month later and there, one night, was a toad whose size was easily as big a Sonny Joe’s head when he was a couple of weeks old…no kidding…
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Bluddy hell!!!
Yes, B**** H*** indeed…we were freezing CT’s right left and centre…there was squillions of them after quite a few good wet years and the drought hadn’t really bitten by then…we let that one live as it didn’t seem right to kill something obviously so aged…it hung around for about 15 months and then it disappeared…people used to think it was a rock…
Bubba Louie said:
pain master said:
The BIGGEST Cane Toad I have ever seen…. spotted yesterday at Paluma, this guy was huge!!!
How big? I’ve seen one that was bread and butter plate size.
I’ve just confirmed with GF and yes, easily the size of a bread and butter plate, in his squat state, from lip to backside he’d measure 18 – 20 cms long and around 14cm wide. He was just bunta!
bon008 said:
Beautiful shots :)Awesome as your flower shots are, froggies and skinks are so much cooler than flowers :D
Thanks Bon :)
Dinetta said:
pain master said:
I’ve been thinking about a frog I saw out at the Ross Dam recently and he somehow had gone missing in my photofiles, but I found him again and thought I’d show a collection of shots taken since my return to Towntown and there’s not a flower to be seen :)But first the Dam Frog.
Pardon my ignorance, but is that a pobblebonk or a froglet…and don’t you just love those biiiiig dark eyes? :)
I don’t know Dinetta0, but someone once said he was a shovelnose frog???? I dunno…
Cool, I haven’t heard of those…I do love frogs in any shape or form…
pain master said:
Bubba Louie said:
pain master said:
The BIGGEST Cane Toad I have ever seen…. spotted yesterday at Paluma, this guy was huge!!!
How big? I’ve seen one that was bread and butter plate size.
I’ve just confirmed with GF and yes, easily the size of a bread and butter plate, in his squat state, from lip to backside he’d measure 18 – 20 cms long and around 14cm wide. He was just bunta!
LOL Prolly a local Legend!
Dinetta said:
pain master said:
Bubba Louie said:How big? I’ve seen one that was bread and butter plate size.
I’ve just confirmed with GF and yes, easily the size of a bread and butter plate, in his squat state, from lip to backside he’d measure 18 – 20 cms long and around 14cm wide. He was just bunta!
LOL Prolly a local Legend!
I remember walking in the same bit of forest some 4 years ago, and coming across a big toad… Never sen one bigger until yesterday when I returned to the same part of forest and maybe… just maybe, it was the same toad?
Wouldn’t be at all surprised! although we’re talking 3 years here…guess it’s like some humans live to 108…that’s the way it goes…
pain master said:
Bubba Louie said:
pain master said:
The BIGGEST Cane Toad I have ever seen…. spotted yesterday at Paluma, this guy was huge!!!
How big? I’ve seen one that was bread and butter plate size.
I’ve just confirmed with GF and yes, easily the size of a bread and butter plate, in his squat state, from lip to backside he’d measure 18 – 20 cms long and around 14cm wide. He was just bunta!
Is it still breathing???? LOL
Bubba Louie said:
pain master said:
Bubba Louie said:How big? I’ve seen one that was bread and butter plate size.
I’ve just confirmed with GF and yes, easily the size of a bread and butter plate, in his squat state, from lip to backside he’d measure 18 – 20 cms long and around 14cm wide. He was just bunta!
Is it still breathing???? LOL
Yeah, I kicked it and he hopped.
pain master said:
and this guy is hanging around in the fronds of a palm… I pulled an old dead frond off, and at least half a dozen little fellas were in behind it…
Just love this!
pain master said:
Dinetta said:
pain master said:
I’ve been thinking about a frog I saw out at the Ross Dam recently and he somehow had gone missing in my photofiles, but I found him again and thought I’d show a collection of shots taken since my return to Towntown and there’s not a flower to be seen :)But first the Dam Frog.
Pardon my ignorance, but is that a pobblebonk or a froglet…and don’t you just love those biiiiig dark eyes? :)
I don’t know Dinetta0, but someone once said he was a shovelnose frog???? I dunno…
AnneS said:
pain master said:
and this guy is hanging around in the fronds of a palm… I pulled an old dead frond off, and at least half a dozen little fellas were in behind it…
Just love this!
Me too, another calendar worthy photo from PM. :)
Hmmm Striped Rocket Frog… I’m leading towards the Wallum Rocket Frog because my photo frog does have spots on his back legs, but we may have to let a frogspert know that the Wallum has been spotted in Towntown.
Thanks for the link Hortfurball :)
and this guy was hanging around in trees too… He was on the road, and as I drove along, he shot across the road and then just like a Koala, he shot up the tree.
AnneS said:
pain master said:
and this guy is hanging around in the fronds of a palm… I pulled an old dead frond off, and at least half a dozen little fellas were in behind it…
Just love this!
Very cute:)
pain master said:
and this guy was hanging around in trees too… He was on the road, and as I drove along, he shot across the road and then just like a Koala, he shot up the tree.
How long was his length Pepe???
Lucky1 said:
pain master said:
and this guy was hanging around in trees too… He was on the road, and as I drove along, he shot across the road and then just like a Koala, he shot up the tree.
How long was his length Pepe???
oooppppppsssssss
DOH!!!
I mean PM:)
still one of my favourite PM photos…
pain master said:
and this guy was hanging around in trees too… He was on the road, and as I drove along, he shot across the road and then just like a Koala, he shot up the tree.
Beautiful :)
climbing to the top of the posts
Lucky1 said:
Lucky1 said:
pain master said:
and this guy was hanging around in trees too… He was on the road, and as I drove along, he shot across the road and then just like a Koala, he shot up the tree.
How long was his length Pepe???
oooppppppsssssss
DOH!!!
I mean PM:)
In my best Pepe voice “around 6 ft long”… he was a big bugga, a friend of mine who lives nearby to where this shot was taken said she regularly gets them around 2m in length.
bluegreen said:
still one of my favourite PM photos…
Cheers BG :)
pain master said:
bluegreen said:
still one of my favourite PM photos…
Cheers BG :)
Here’s the original size…
In my best Pepe voice “around 6 ft long”… he was a big bugga, a friend of mine who lives nearby to where this shot was taken said she regularly gets them around 2m in length.
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very big – you wouldn’t want that sitting on your head !!
hey PM – that gooby looking frog shot – the one looking over the rim in the unreal blue water – is that mockup photography or real ?
pepe said:
In my best Pepe voice “around 6 ft long”… he was a big bugga, a friend of mine who lives nearby to where this shot was taken said she regularly gets them around 2m in length.
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very big – you wouldn’t want that sitting on your head !!
hey PM – that gooby looking frog shot – the one looking over the rim in the unreal blue water – is that mockup photography or real ?
ah, the Gooby Froggy. I found him in the toilet at work and he was the first I had found when I first came to Towntown… and GF and I had been discussing how do we get a few for our own backyard. We had a big arsed Mango Tree, some galangal, and other gingers and we thought we were creating a frog haven, so I said that each one I found at work, I would bring home to release. I was then told, that the Green Tree Frogs were very territorial and that they would leave a new abode. So I found this guy and so I could get him home, I placed him in a Blue Bucket and put a cover over the top and drove home. When I got home and he climbed up onto the rim of the bucket, he looked sooooo Goofy that I said to GF “I have to take him back to his home, his home is not here…” and I then drove him back to work where he still lives….
pepe said:
In my best Pepe voice “around 6 ft long”… he was a big bugga, a friend of mine who lives nearby to where this shot was taken said she regularly gets them around 2m in length.
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very big – you wouldn’t want that sitting on your head !!
hey PM – that gooby looking frog shot – the one looking over the rim in the unreal blue water – is that mockup photography or real ?
ah, the Gooby Froggy. I found him in the toilet at work and he was the first I had found when I first came to Towntown… and GF and I had been discussing how do we get a few for our own backyard. We had a big arsed Mango Tree, some galangal, and other gingers and we thought we were creating a frog haven, so I said that each one I found at work, I would bring home to release. I was then told, that the Green Tree Frogs were very territorial and that they would leave a new abode. So I found this guy and so I could get him home, I placed him in a Blue Bucket and put a cover over the top and drove home. When I got home and he climbed up onto the rim of the bucket, he looked sooooo Goofy that I said to GF “I have to take him back to his home, his home is not here…” and I then drove him back to work where he still lives….
“I have to take him back to his home, his home is not here…” and I then drove him back to work where he still lives….
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so the photo is real – somehow that whole story makes sense – IF you live in the tropics. LOL.
Yes they are territorial, so I’ve heard…there’s stories of people painting (nasty buggers! the people that is) the frogs, driving them miles away for release in a stream somewhere, and the frog came back, paint job and all…why would you????
N E ways, have you got your own frogs now, PM and GF?
Dinetta said:
Yes they are territorial, so I’ve heard…there’s stories of people painting (nasty buggers! the people that is) the frogs, driving them miles away for release in a stream somewhere, and the frog came back, paint job and all…why would you????N E ways, have you got your own frogs now, PM and GF?
…as in, have you been adopted by some frogs since trying to collect your own??
Here I go again..
While in White Cliffs where I go whenever I have the money to dig.. On the phone at night. I can see the kangaroos hopping all around the streets from the public phone booth.
The Euros hang about the dugouts on the hills.
Here I have had things like 300 trees in milk cartons knocked down in a circle.. and scratched my head.. what did that? Then also heard lapping noises in the night in the nursery.. Thought it was a dog but then for one whom has stepped over snakes on the doorstep during the day and startled foxes at the door in the night, I shouldn’t have been surprised to find a kangaroo in the nursery getting a drink. It hoppped over and sat next to me, sat there watching the moon with me for a while only inches away. Thought it was tame until I reached out to touch it. Two bounds and it was gone.. out of sight. Two more and out of the yard.
So lads and laddesses.. kangaroos do romp in the streets but.. you have to be out at night and very quiet.. to see them
One night .. or well, it started early in the eve.. while there was still light to see. I saw a thin tail tip disappeasring in the leaf litter along the fence and thought another bl…y rat. Later in the night while transplanting sensitive natives, I kept hearing this rustling noise up and down along the fence.. and to clear up that issue., I was working on the ground from a path with less than a metre strip of pots that side of the path between me and the fence. Thinking I’m sick of these rats .. I’m gonna get this one.. I went looking.. just step over the pots and grab .. was the method I was thinking of..
I stood stock still trying to see where the rat was.. but silence reigned.. so I went looking.. yep found my rat.. had gone to ground under a bit of wood I had laid down near the water tap.. I’d reckon she was about 1.8 metres and all brown and slithery. So I covered her back up and went back to work. just two metres from her hidey hole.
pain master said:
Lucky1 said:
Lucky1 said:How long was his length Pepe???
oooppppppsssssss
DOH!!!
I mean PM:)
In my best Pepe voice “around 6 ft long”… he was a big bugga, a friend of mine who lives nearby to where this shot was taken said she regularly gets them around 2m in length.
The big ones can be quite intimidating when they lose their fear of people and crash your picnic demanding food.
pain master said:
Hmmm Striped Rocket Frog… I’m leading towards the Wallum Rocket Frog because my photo frog does have spots on his back legs, but we may have to let a frogspert know that the Wallum has been spotted in Towntown.Thanks for the link Hortfurball :)
You’re welcome. Thought you might like it. :)
I found a frog sitting on my back patio one evening about a couple of weeks ago and had to use this site to figure out what he was as I’ve only ever had Motorbike Frogs http://frogsaustralia.net.au/frogs/display.cfm?frog_id=144 in my yard before. Turns out he was a Bullfrog http://frogsaustralia.net.au/frogs/display.cfm?frog_id=35
I’d heard his call for a few weeks beforehand but didn’t realise he was in my garden. When I first saw him I wasn’t sure if it was a frog shaped leaf or a frog but something must have got my attention because I put Ella (dog) inside as soon as I saw him. Then I got down on my hands and knees and inched closer to him for a good look. He let me get my face within about 50 cm of him before he hopped into my patio plants. Went back inside, came out half an hour later and there was no trace of him at all. Just a few nights ago I heard him again so he’s still around somewhere.
I think the site information may be a little outdated because apparently the motorbike frog isn’t found up as far as Perth and yet they are all around Perth. Have seen and heard them in a number of places. Counted 17 one evening in our own garden a few years back until the nasty feral neighbours with their nasty feral cats moved in next door and our frog numbers gradually diminished. :( Perhaps the ‘frogsperts’ already know your wallum is in Towntown.
Oops, perhaps I was mistaken.
It says THIS is the Motorbike frog…http://frogsaustralia.net.au/frogs/display.cfm?frog_id=166
But the two do hybridise so perhaps we had hybrids as they looked much more like the first link I put up.
bluegreen said:
still one of my favourite PM photos…
WOW!! Why did I never see that pic before? That’s a great photo!
pepe said:
“I have to take him back to his home, his home is not here…” and I then drove him back to work where he still lives….
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so the photo is real – somehow that whole story makes sense – IF you live in the tropics. LOL.
yeah the goofy shot is just a frog in a bucket.
Dinetta said:
Yes they are territorial, so I’ve heard…there’s stories of people painting (nasty buggers! the people that is) the frogs, driving them miles away for release in a stream somewhere, and the frog came back, paint job and all…why would you????N E ways, have you got your own frogs now, PM and GF?
There is one around the place but I have only heard him… I got bundles of them at the office. Often I take a look amongst the Spider Lillys and there are heaps of baby green tree frogs hanging out…
roughbarked said:
I’d reckon she was about 1.8 metres and all brown and slithery.
oh dear…
Bubba Louie said:
The big ones can be quite intimidating when they lose their fear of people and crash your picnic demanding food.
Very true, the Big Ones don’t run like the little fellas, they ain’t as scared of us at that age. The local waterhole just south of Towntown has a Monitor or two that will climb up onto the picnic tables to ask for scraps, and the Monitors are bigger than the goannas but maybe not as long…
hortfurball said:
Oops, perhaps I was mistaken.It says THIS is the Motorbike frog…http://frogsaustralia.net.au/frogs/display.cfm?frog_id=166
But the two do hybridise so perhaps we had hybrids as they looked much more like the first link I put up.
Groovy looking froggies there hfb :)
hortfurball said:
bluegreen said:
still one of my favourite PM photos…
WOW!! Why did I never see that pic before? That’s a great photo!
That shot hfb was taken back I think during the old ABC days when we had the HTML on it, and that is going back some time… I think you may have joined us since (or I could be wrong…)
Morning.
I woke with a terrible start..the screeching of tires, a big crunch sound, yet another accident out the front of my place. Ambos fireys and police all there within a minute. A truck and a little car and the injured car driver tried to hobble away in shock. The trucks fuel tank punctured. Big mess.
It’s a T intersection and scores, if not a hundred, of accidents a year happen here.
I find it traumatising to be hearing that sound regularly, and I’ll be nagging the council and Vic roads about it.. needs a roundabout, and today!
Oh wrong chat, sorry :(
>It says THIS is the Motorbike frog…http://frogsaustralia.net.au/frogs/display.cfm?frog_id=166
So those bloody imbeciles in the middle of the night aren’t riding motorbikes!
They’re on frogs! I hate em even more!
So lads and laddesses.. kangaroos do romp in the streets but.. you have to be out at night and very quiet.. to see them
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hehehe – nicely hijacked – probably humans and roos could be friends.
roughbarked said:
So lads and laddesses.. kangaroos do romp in the streets but.. you have to be out at night and very quiet.. to see them
hortfurball said:
I think the site information may be a little outdated because apparently the motorbike frog isn’t found up as far as Perth and yet they are all around Perth. Have seen and heard them in a number of places. Counted 17 one evening in our own garden a few years back until the nasty feral neighbours with their nasty feral cats moved in next door and our frog numbers gradually diminished. :( Perhaps the ‘frogsperts’ already know your wallum is in Towntown.
I use the Amphibian Research Centre site for frog IDs
They seem to have a more up-to-date distribution map for the Motorbike Frog
hortfurball said:
pain master said:
Dinetta said:Pardon my ignorance, but is that a pobblebonk or a froglet…and don’t you just love those biiiiig dark eyes? :)
I don’t know Dinetta0, but someone once said he was a shovelnose frog???? I dunno…
Could be this little cutie…Striped Rocket Frog
http://frogsaustralia.net.au/frogs/display.cfm?frog_id=168
Wrong colouring, and the body shape is different…
You’ve got me sucked in to the ID now! Have you put it up over on ScribblyGum? I thought it might be a burrowing-type frog, but the back legs look too long?
bluegreen said:
I use the Amphibian Research Centre site for frog IDs
That’s confusing at first, then I found the search engine and was able to ID a lot of the frogs I find in my region…
pain master said:
hortfurball said:
bluegreen said:
still one of my favourite PM photos…
WOW!! Why did I never see that pic before? That’s a great photo!
That shot hfb was taken back I think during the old ABC days when we had the HTML on it, and that is going back some time… I think you may have joined us since (or I could be wrong…)
You’d be right. :) I think I joined about 6 months or so before the forum ‘changed’ LOL!
Fantastic shot!
Man it’s hard to type after 4 glasses of wine!…or was that 5? Methinks I need a cuppa…
CollieWA said:
>It says THIS is the Motorbike frog…http://frogsaustralia.net.au/frogs/display.cfm?frog_id=166So those bloody imbeciles in the middle of the night aren’t riding motorbikes!
They’re on frogs! I hate em even more!
LOL! They really do sound like a motorbike changing gears…
bluegreen said:
hortfurball said:I think the site information may be a little outdated because apparently the motorbike frog isn’t found up as far as Perth and yet they are all around Perth. Have seen and heard them in a number of places. Counted 17 one evening in our own garden a few years back until the nasty feral neighbours with their nasty feral cats moved in next door and our frog numbers gradually diminished. :( Perhaps the ‘frogsperts’ already know your wallum is in Towntown.
I use the Amphibian Research Centre site for frog IDs
They seem to have a more up-to-date distribution map for the Motorbike Frog
Hehe, you hadn’t seen my ‘oops’ post at that point, but that pic looks a lot more like my guys than the pic on the site I linked to.
Dinetta said:
hortfurball said:
pain master said:I don’t know Dinetta0, but someone once said he was a shovelnose frog???? I dunno…
Could be this little cutie…Striped Rocket Frog
http://frogsaustralia.net.au/frogs/display.cfm?frog_id=168
Wrong colouring, and the body shape is different…
I was somewhat limited by the fact that I’m not quite sure where in that big state top right PM actually is, LOL!