Here is the breed of frog we have in our goldfish pond. Last night I counted 9 frogs, 6 were stacked on top of each other in the frog condo I built for them, and the others were just sitting on the bottom. I caught one and moved it to my koi pond. It was pretty awesome to see this little guy swim across 11' of water. I bet it tuckered the little guy out. Any idea what these are exactly?
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We called them Leopard frogs. Where I grew up, upstate NY, they were almost always a basic green or a basic bronze. We has some that were a mix like yours, but it was rare for us. Yours is handsome.
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Very nice, I saw one once. A lot on this forum would love to have some in their ponds.
It's a nice looking frog alright. I wish we had more of a selection of frogs around here. I believe that is the type we use to have around when I was a kid, but they are all gone from this area. All the places I use see and catch frogs when I was a kid are either gone or devoid of frogs. It's pretty sad and kind of alarming really.
There are still tree frogs around, but they don't make very good pond frogs because they are mostly nocturnal and don't really hang around ponds, except when they breed, and of course only at night. I find tree frogs all the time, but never in or by the pond.
The frogs I have in my pond (not lepard frogs), I had to drive way up in the mountains to a small lake to catch, and even their population there seems to be decimated. I use to go there when I was a kid and there was literally thousands, you had to be carefull you didn't step on them when you walked along the shore line. Last time I went there, I saw 3 altogether, and I caught 2 of them for my pond, so there may only be one left.
There are still tree frogs around, but they don't make very good pond frogs because they are mostly nocturnal and don't really hang around ponds, except when they breed, and of course only at night. I find tree frogs all the time, but never in or by the pond.
The frogs I have in my pond (not lepard frogs), I had to drive way up in the mountains to a small lake to catch, and even their population there seems to be decimated. I use to go there when I was a kid and there was literally thousands, you had to be carefull you didn't step on them when you walked along the shore line. Last time I went there, I saw 3 altogether, and I caught 2 of them for my pond, so there may only be one left.
Yeah, I recall parks having frogs and toads when I was a kid. We'd play on the merry go round for a while, then we'd spend the rest of the time catching frogs and toads. I take my kids to the same parks now and I have yet to see a single frog or toad. Weird, one of those parks is only half a mile a way from my house. I had no idea how lucky I was, I figured all ponds ended up with tons of frogs. Thanks for the ID, glad to know their proper names.
I've since been told the bronze version I grew up seeing was a Pickerel Frog and not a Leopard frog. Learn something everyday.
It is bizarre to me to see such a fast reduction in frogs in my lifetime. Makes me wonder what exactly the end goal is of human activity. I was having a discussion with a friend recently about Kurzweil's singularity concept and how man is advancing exponentially. I connected that idea to something Heimo Korth said, that mankind's down fall started when we started farming. It creates an interesting concept...are we advancing or are we declining? How is that measured? My life is great compared to my ancestors so to me man has advanced. But if humans advance themselves into extinction in a 100 years, 1000 years, or even 1,000,000 years would that still be called advancement? As a species we would have only had a short run.
Here's Heimo's philosophy at 20:30 in.
It is bizarre to me to see such a fast reduction in frogs in my lifetime. Makes me wonder what exactly the end goal is of human activity. I was having a discussion with a friend recently about Kurzweil's singularity concept and how man is advancing exponentially. I connected that idea to something Heimo Korth said, that mankind's down fall started when we started farming. It creates an interesting concept...are we advancing or are we declining? How is that measured? My life is great compared to my ancestors so to me man has advanced. But if humans advance themselves into extinction in a 100 years, 1000 years, or even 1,000,000 years would that still be called advancement? As a species we would have only had a short run.
Here's Heimo's philosophy at 20:30 in.
I watched a show about obesity and it said the same thing about farming, mankind has only been farming for the last couple hundred years, before that we had to expend lots of energy to get small amounts of food. Farming allowed us to grow tons of food without expending very much energy. That was a pretty shocking thing to hear, but after I thought about it it makes a lot of sense. Of course now we're feeding all of the food we farm to cows and chickens to make meat faster than ever, but that's a whole other discussion.
I've been trying to find leopard frogs that can tolerate the colder states, but I've come up empty. We used to have a lot of them around here, but apparently other critters have wiped them out. Keep him safe, leopard frogs are getting pretty scarce these days.
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Pickerel frog. Definitely!
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I'm not so sure going by this description.
In the OP picture the spots seem bordered by green and not brown. Buckry, you need to get in there, catch him, and post a picture of his underside or this thread will never end. :fechten2:
In the OP picture the spots seem bordered by green and not brown. Buckry, you need to get in there, catch him, and post a picture of his underside or this thread will never end. :fechten2:
No problem. I'm catching 2 or 3 each night in my goldfish pond and moving them to their special little stream. I'll flip one over tonight and have the wife take a picture. I have a picture of the toads that have already moved in as well. Had quite the royal rumble last night between 2 males fighting over a female. If they weighed more than 2 ounces they might have knocked my edging into the pond.
This week on ESPN... Frog Flipping!!!
wow, that is one pretty frog, would love to have one like that but my bullfrog would probably chase it away