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Just look who I found this week...

we have heard a couple of them during
the beautiful rain we have had of late,
usually at night...

but have not found them during the day

I think he/she found it a bit hot with
the sun glaring on his home...

as soon as he/she heard the click of the
camera he retreated...
He has lived in this self-watering pot for
years, but we haven't seen him for ages
& thought he may have gone to green
froggie heaven.
I re-located about 12 or 15 beautiful green
frogs from my eldest's place about 5 years
ago. They have an over-abundance of
them & find them a nuisance.
We brought them home here & re-located
into our water feature [see photos at
bottom of my blog]... many people said
they would all die... I wouldn't say we have
a lot of them but we do have at least 3 &
that is 3 more than we had when we came
here 7 years ago.
The dreadful cane toad kills them & he is
taking over the state so if we can rescue
some beautiful green frogs I will because
at least they have some chance in my garden.
Angel Message...
Do not worry about your age,
the depth of your knowledge or
the breadth of your experiences.
Celestial guidance comes to all those
who crave it.

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Myyy... I'm just so thrilled with the visitor we had the other night ... isn't he lovely ... we have often heard him but have not sighted him or one of his kind, in ever so long ... maybe because of the drought but with all the rains I guess he was becoming rather waterlogged ... he was only too pleased to pose for me while I took these photos.
We didn't have green frogs, when we came to live here but our eldest daughter did where she lived - she had so many they were a very big nuisance &... well lets just say she was only too pleased to give me whatever we could catch.
It was like comedy show... we found a box with a good lid then lined it with old newspapers & garbags as we had been told if they sit in their urine it will burn their skin. Then we set about collecting them - well they only come out at night but we got a few ... into the box with a spray of water to keep them happy. We are sitting out on her verhanda having tea/evening meal & she quickly gets up & goes into the laundry then comes out with a silly smirk on her face. You see we hadn't told the men what we were doing nor had we told the kids - just would of got all outta hand if so many knew... Well apparently while we were eating tea she could see the frogs making their escape out of a very small air-hole in the old fruit box so she had gone into the laundry & the only thing she could find to plug the hole was an old saucepan...lol Anyway kids off to bed, men watching TV so back to it again & we found about 12 frogs - stuffed the holes & went to bed. By morning we had lost one or two but there again we might of counted wrong so we prepared them for the five an a half hour drive to our home. It was dreadfully hot weather so we had their box on a couple of ice packs & had sprayed them well. They really did travel well & that evening we opened the box & let the jump out just as a sprinkle of rain came. That was about 5 years ago now & we only see the odd one here & there but not for ages this last time so he really was a welcome visitor. Why don't we have green frogs here in our suburb ... well that's because the [introduced]toads kills them, sadly. If you look at the photos at the bottom of my blog that show my Gyrlie Shed you will see them in our water feature.
Thankful... for the beauty of nature's little creatures