Froggy Woggy - is it a baby?

PasturesNew

This froggy woggy was sitting on my sill the other day. Doesn't look fully formed....is it a baby?

He sat for quite a while as I snapped a few pics of him.

Not looked since to see if he's still around.

http://i64.tinypic.com/28w0ayc.jpg

arbrighton

Adult but a very very odd colour

PasturesNew

arbrighton wrote: »

Adult but a very very odd colour

His hands don't look right. That's why I wondered if it wasn't an adult.
He looks "skinned" .... not tough/leathery and warty (like I'd expect).

mellymoo74

He's perfectly normal just a bit rarer.
Common frog can be red or orange

PasturesNew

mellymoo74 wrote: »

He's perfectly normal just a bit rarer.
Common frog can be red or orange

He looks cute. If I saw him again I'd be googling what they eat, so I could see if I could lob some out

EDIT: I just googled... worms they say. There's plenty of those all the time in my garden. Every day the patio's awash with little worm bodies.... so at least I know he won't starve. I'd thought there were fewer recently, maybe he's hoovering them up. Bless him.

Ditto slugs. I've noticed I don't have so many of those recently too.

I hope he stays ....never liked the slugs or worms. I used to step outside in the dark and tread on them. ewww.

zagubov

Something needs to eat slugs. Haven't a clue why they aren't eaten as soon as they're born as they've no protective features I can think of.

teddysmum

They are very tiny when first becoming completely 'frog' and frogs have smooth skin , as opposed to the warty lumpy skin of a toad.


Our neighbour has a wildlife pond and one year our garden was full of small frogs, so having dogs, I collected the froglets in a large dish and passed them to the neighbour, for their safety.


Looking at the collection, I was amazed at the range of colours: various shades of green, grey,beige and brown, but also pale blue and pale pink.

PasturesNew

teddysmum wrote: »

They are very tiny when first becoming completely 'frog' and frogs have smooth skin , as opposed to the warty lumpy skin of a toad.


Our neighbour has a wildlife pond and one year our garden was full of small frogs, so having dogs, I collected the froglets in a large dish and passed them to the neighbour, for their safety.


Looking at the collection, I was amazed at the range of colours: various shades of green, grey,beige and brown, but also pale blue and pale pink.

To me, the inexperienced idiot, he looked full size.... I couldn't see him when I spotted him as it was just as it was getting daylight. In fact I saw something and thought it was a rotten leaf on the sill of my patio doors and was about to scrape it away when I realised it was a "thing", so I grabbed my camera and snapped (with flash). He just sat there, didn't move at all.

teddysmum

PasturesNew wrote: »

To me, the inexperienced idiot, he looked full size.... I couldn't see him when I spotted him as it was just as it was getting daylight. In fact I saw something and thought it was a rotten leaf on the sill of my patio doors and was about to scrape it away when I realised it was a "thing", so I grabbed my camera and snapped (with flash). He just sat there, didn't move at all.

They seem to be mesmerised by light, just like rabbits caught in headlights.


Some years ago, after dark, I spotted one of my cavaliers staring at a 'pile of mud' on the side path, only to see it jump at my approach....One brave dog, also disappeared,convinced the monster was out to get him.

PasturesNew

teddysmum wrote: »

They seem to be mesmerised by light, just like rabbits caught in headlights.


Some years ago, after dark, I spotted one of my cavaliers staring at a 'pile of mud' on the side path, only to see it jump at my approach....One brave dog, also disappeared,convinced the monster was out to get him.

I couldn't tell what photo I was taking, how it'd turn out ... so I was surprised by how lovely his eyes looked. I expected him to move/leap/hop off.... but he didn't. And it felt "mean" flashing my camera in his face from about 1' away, so I just snapped a few and left him to it.

LOL/monster.

teddysmum

I remember being on a college biology field course and sitting by a churchyard pond for lunch. We were inundated by tiny perfect frogs, no bigger than a thumb nail; tiny but very beautiful.