Sunday, June 22, 2008

Barrow frogs

Very heavy rain again today. I think there must have been quite a few frogs out there last night. When my wife let the dog out for his evening ritual she saw these two posing on the handles of the wheelbarrow. Hardly ideal positions for egg laying, hopefully they realized and gave up on their pole balancing performance soon afterward.
These frogs also have the ability to change color in order to blend in to the background. Only useful in the day time, but perhaps here during the brief flashes of light their brains are saying "must turn black". I should have had a torch on hand to get the camera to focus better.