I wasn’t sure… I’d photographed around this statue before, mostly flowers and insects…could I have missed a frog as part of the installation?
I walked around this little pond several times…
…the frog never moved. The frog was not there when I went back yesterday to see the azaleas, so he must have been the real deal.
With only a 100mm lens with me I couldn’t get far enough away to get an image of the whole pond.
Middleton Place, Charleston, SC
February 15, 2023
Magnolia Plantation and Gardens, Charleston, SC
September 12, 2022
An assortment of Tree Frogs has been hanging out with my back yard flowers all summer and Elephant Ear stems have been a favorite spot to snooze.
The Black-eyed Susan made a nice backdrop.
Going…
going…
going…
…one last peak and I’m gone…
Tree Frogs pick some risky places to hang out. This one was in plain sight and could easily be picked off by a clever bird.
However, there weren’t any birds about that I saw so his bigger risk might have been falling into the river.
From a different angle the frog looked like he had some more secure choices for his next leap.
This is the smallest Tree Frog I’ve ever seen, no bigger than my pinky fingernail. I’m calling him a juvenile, but have no idea how old he might be, or how he came to be on our patio.
Ted spotted him first, and thought it was the head of a juvenile Carolina Anole peaking up over the leaf.
There was a young Anole patrolling this Curcumin plant and the frog soon disappeared into the dense middle and I wondered if they were aware of each other.
A big leaf pierced its neighbor making a nice pocket for a Tree Frog to settle for a nap.
I hear frogs croaking and splashing into the water ahead of me, but rarely see them around the swamp. This fellow caught my attention with a small croak, and then was perfectly still.
Sitting on a fallen Powdery Alligator-flag leaf, he blended into the wet leaves pretty well and it took me a minute to spot him.
After not finding a Tree Frog in the Calla Lilies around the pond I spotted this one right at my eye level on a dried stalk from last year’s hibiscus.
