Yeah those are wood frogs Sharon. Cute aren't they? My ex's family had a big pond that was always full of them, and in the fall they all migrated over to their house (it had an earth crawl space underneath) and burrowed into the mud. Ex-MIL was soooo freaked out by them because they were just packed in, there were so many. Then one winter they got a weasel (no kidding) living under there and it ate every single frog. It also came up the pipe hole under the sink and went through their garbage. They saw it a couple of times early in the morning. Weird eh! OK that story was completely off topic but yeah wood frogs can multiply suddenly in great numbers.

Frogs everywhere here too! ... lots of wood frogs and those very tiny ones that come in different colors ...

Terry

I usually have one or two frogs in the yard also. On July 17th I had taken a few pictures of one of them. Is this also a wood frog? It does have the white tummy on it. He is almost 2" long when sitting.

Brenda

Lots here, too. An odd one in our yard the other day, it was kind of long and skinny, so dark brown it looked black, slimy looking like a salamander, no spots and boy, could he ever leap high.

Brenda, that's a Leopard Frog. 2" is a normal size for them - but for some reason you occasionally find an enormous one, like 5 or 6" long. They are usually right in the same pond with the regular sized ones. I have always wondered why some get so big.

Pudge - not sure about the dark brown one. There are only so many amphibian species on the prairies, I will see if I can figure it out.

Thanks, Gillian.

No inground pond here but lots of perennials to hide underneath.

Brenda

I have a wood frog here are well. This year he's quite big so I am wondering if it's the same small frog I've seem in other years.

He hangs around the pond hiding in the rocks (and jumps out and startles you at the optimum time).

Apparently tree/wood frogs only really need water in spring when they lay eggs in small ponds or large puddles created by melting snow. They hibernate by burrowing under leaves and their bodies can freeze solid and survive.

The thing that amazed me is this isn't exactly ideal frog habitat, lots of cement streets, trimmed lawns, and alot of yards don't even have much in the way of shrubs or perennials for them to hide among.

I did find a spot this spring, two blocks down the street by the railway track, that held water for a good two months in spring and I think that is where they breed in spring. Apparently they like yards with loads of hiding places and even garden lights - the lights attract bugs at night for them to eat.

Glen

You can tell if they are Wood frogs by the "bandit's mask" marking at the eye.

Again I was watering late last night, this time they were hopping high that they were hitting my ankles. ewwwwwwwwwww!

Glen, I was wondering how they hibernate, I don't have a pond so these guys must of came from the spring slough back in the pasture.

I tried catching one to take a photo, no luck. LOL

Sharon

Early this spring I had this 'brilliant idea' to set out some traps for slugs. Last year was a particularly bad year for them so I was plotting my strategy. I placed several wet newspaper sections in a remote section of the yard, thinking the slugs would hide under there and I would be able to just remove the paper along with the slugs. Well, it's been quite a dry summer for us here and the slugs haven't really been an issue. However, the newspaper is still there and under each one there resides a frog. I can't make out any markings. They are dark in color and quite small. They've been there for weeks. I try not to disturb them. Do you think they are eating the slugs? Or what are they doing there?

Marie, you might have toads (at a guess). They are more land dwelling than frogs but still like to hide in damp places and often dig themselves underground or under damp leaves (or newspapers). I don't know for sure about frogs but toads definitely eat slugs so they're your buddies and you made them a nice home!

I was wondering if they were toads. It's kind of neat finding them hiding there. Anyway, they're definitely welcome in my yard, especially if they eat slugs!

Here is my frog!

Here is a link that might be useful: My garden frog

Don't think he is going to catch many slugs for you. :)

My 2" frog has almost doubled in size. He must be eating a lot of slugs because I am having a hard time finding any this year. And that is a very good thing. You know, I never used to have any slugs, until I started buying plants from the nurseries and would find them hiding in there.

Brenda

We always have frogs around our place in the spring, but this year they've been around all summer. There's the occasional big one, but most are small, brown or green ones. We had to keep fishing them out of our new pond when it was only partly full, because they couldn't get out by themselves, and the poor little guys can only swim for so long. Now it's full, so they can get in and out by themselves.
Connie

Last week we returned to our house after a couple of days away, opened the door and there sitting in the foyer, beside the cat was a little tree frog! I have no idea how he got in, our house is a raised bungalow so you need to climb six stairs to reach the door. Hubby tried to grab him but he kept leaping away, lol. Finally he leapt up and clung to the hall mirror and we were able to catch him and put him outside.

LOL, I'm amazed that the cat didn't eat the frog. Poor thing, glad to hear you freed him back outdoors.

Sharon

brokenhead, do you have a window air conditioner in your home?

My sister and her husband have a window air conditioner in their diningroom and through the window each evening a little treefrog would always sit on the top of it. Then during the day, they would see him under it somewhere where the moisture/water was dripping. One day they didn't see him there. That night they went into their bedroom and there he was. What a time they also had to catch him! He would jump and attach his little feet to the side of the furniture. They figured that he must have come in through the vents in the air conditioner somehow.

Here is a picture of mine. I had been taking pictures of the clematis in bloom and looked up and saw him. He must have thought that the clematis trellis was just wide enough to sleep on and didn't care less that I was getting closer and closer to him with my camera...except that he did finally open his eyes. He was there all day.

Can you find him?

Here he is a little closer.

Brenda

Wildie, are you bringing your 'frog' to your new home? Will he hibernate at your new home for the winter?? :)

Come to think of it, I haven't seen any live ones here for about a week...wonder if they are gone into hibernation already.

Brenda