The Currimundi Catchment Care Group in the Sunshine Coast of Queensland has posted a blog post on the Striped Marsh frog.
They are a grassroots organisation that is:
‘a very diverse and active group. We have removed weeds and planted thousands of plants in the parks and bushland bordering the waterways, collected tonnes of rubbish, stenciled litter awareness messages on hundreds of stormwater drains, delivered thousands of newsletters four times a year to a growing urban sprawl, distributed thousands of butt bins, addressed school groups on local environmental issues, conducted tours of an important rainforest stand and maintained a monthly water-monitoring roster at twenty sites along the waterways.’ (source: Currimundi Catchment Care Group website).
They asked permission to use a photo I took when we lived at Woodgate Beach in Hervey Bay.
They have also included a sound track of the unique croak of the Striped Marsh frog (a drip, drip, drip sound – I used to think it sounded like a game of ping pong (if you have a group of them).
So if you want to know more about the frog hop on 😉 over to their website
ribbit, ribbit, ribbit
sounds like a good organisation, frogs need all the help they can get. Cute frog photo too
Juliet
http://craftygreenpoet.blogspot.com
Thanks Juliet – yes, unfortunately frogs do need as much help as possible 🙂
Gorgeous little frog, Gabrielle, and what a lovely response to a request for permission.
Thanks Kate – it is a little cute 🙂
A bit toad-like in markings but loger legs and more pointy nose. I see. The sound wouldn’t work for me, alas.
The sound can be a bit annoying colonialist. They do look a bit like a toad – I bet a few people have mistaken them for toads and killed them for their similarity!
What have people there got against toads?
toads are a major pest in Australia – an introduced species that destroys a lot of our wildlife – we have programs to kill them ‘toad busters’
I do miss all your frog photos…still recall the Christmas ones. 🙂
Thanks Charles – I might put together a little pamphlet of my froggy photos and poems – in the fullness of time, if I ever have any spare 🙂
Congrats on being a published photographer 😀 P found the most beautiful little tree frog on the golf course on Saturday – they are so tiny, and sweet, unlike those dastardly cane toads.
thanks bb 🙂 I’m on a mission to take more frog photos – cane toads are horrible (we have way to many around here – though they have been quiet because of the lack of rain)