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Bonus Frog Friday!

I brought the macro kit in with me today and then had to lean precariously out over the railing to get this shot. (I do wish they'd perch in a more accessible spot).

#EasternDwarfTreeFrog #frog #UQ #AustralianWildlife #WildOz

A tiny (~ 2cm long) green frog with gold eyes and a gold stripe from its nose down its side, perched in the sun on a wide blade of grass.

2 of 2.

More #EasternDwarfTreeFrog photos from this morning. (the last three of seven I spotted)

#TinyFrogThursday #AustralianWildlife #WildOz #frog

A backlit tiny green frog perched on the stalk of a large grass species.

A tiny green frog, on a wide grass leaf covered in dew. It is currently in the shade, since the sun moved position and the frog hasn't got around to moving over in to the sun yet.

The now famous frog-in-a-leaf-nest, still sitting in it's cup of chewed leaves above a ripening orange.

It is once again Thursday, so it must be #TinyFrogThursday again!

This morning I spotted SEVEN tiny Eastern Dwarf Tree Frogs warming themselves in the morning sun. 1 of 2.

#AustralianWildlife #frog #WildOz #EasternDwarfTreeFrog

A tiny green frog with dark gold stripe down its side, sitting on a wide blade of grass in the sun.

A tiny yellow-green frog perched on the stalk of a large grass, in the sun. It is facing the camera and its gold eyes are shining in the sunlight.

A tiny green frog perched on a wide blade of grass in the sun. It is surrounded by the seeds of said grass from an overhanging seed-spray.

A tiny green frog, facing away from the camera, on a wide blade of grass in the sun.

A female Galah (one of three pairs I observed feeding on the edge of the sports fields at UQ).

Both male and female look similar, but the female has a red eye.

In Australia, "galah" often refers to a person of dubious intelligence (aka an idiot). Usage: "You bloody galah! What do you think you're doing?"
Presumably this came about by watching the antics of this bird, esp. in flight (quite random, almost appearing drunk on occasions).

#bird #AustralianWildlife #WIldOz #Galah #cockatoo

A medium cockatoo type bird that has a pink body, white cap and light grey wings. She is standing on a field of grass, looking left.

Bush Stone-Curlews observing me, as I observe them today on my lunchtime walk around campus.

#bird #AustralianWildlife #WildOz #BushStoneCurlew

A Bush Stone-Curlew behind a log on the ground facing the camera and staring intently at me.

A Bush Stone-Curlew standing in a garden bed, facing right, while giving the camera a disapproving stare.

The head and neck of a Bush Stone-Curlew who was sitting in a garden. It has its neck stretched out pretending to be a stick, while also keeping a close eye on me.

@nash I'm using a Zoom-F1 and SGH-6 directional mic capsule for my field recordings (mostly frogs). But any directional mic needs to be fairly close to the subject to minimise the background noise (it's rare that outside isn't quite noisy with other critters).
That's why professional field recorders typically use a combination of parabolic mics and remote mics placed strategically where the subject usually calls.

@carusb The yellow robins are regulars here :)

@joannaholman @caity I only spotted it because it was an unusual lump on the side of the tree. :)

A couple of birds on the driveway as I wandered back from the letterbox at lunchtime today.

I spied the Tawny Frogmouth first, and then an Eastern Yellow Robin landed on a branch close by and posed for a little while.

#bird #AustralianWildlife #WildOz #TawnyFrogmouth #EasternYellowRobin

A Tawny Frogmouth perched in a Silky Oak tree. It is at the root of a branch and is trying to look as much like the bark as possible. In this shot, it is puffed up a bit and looks kinda round. (It is cool outside today).

A small grey and yellow robin on a branch. It is looking left, and has its tail up.

A closer shot of the Tawny Frogmouth. In this photo, I was a cople of metres closer and the bird knew it, and had stretched out to appear more like a broken branch.

@freitag impressive!

@ada western end of the main lake at UQ.

The campus birds weren't doing anything interesting on my walk to the office this morning, so I swung past the spot where the frogs hang out, and was not disappointed.

#EasternDwarfTreeFrog #frog #AustralianWildlife #WildOz

Spot the frog!

A tiny green frog perches on a green, grasshopper-eaten leaf, in the sun. There are a good many other leaves around and you have to look carefully to see the frog.

A very tiny green frog sitting on an orange which is still mostly green, but starting to change colour.

New bird for me yesterday, a Pale-vented Bush-Hen.

Michael Moorcombe's Australian Birds says of this species: "Noisy; secretive inhabitant of dense margins of freshwater wetland, rainforest and regrowth, dense tall crops, mangrove edges. Tends to emerge from cover early and late or when heavily overcast."

Which probably explains why I haven't seen one before.

#bird #AustralianWildlife #WildOz #PaleVentedBushHen

A brown semi-aquatic bird with a pale beak and noticeable hole or vent through it, wading in shallow water heading for the cover of the plants along the bank.

@stephen-ao I think it just found it. The first time I spotted (presumably the same frog) it was sunning itself on the fruit. But since a grasshopper chomped the leaves in to a cup, it's been using that as a sunning spot.

@HederaVulpes and this one is fully grown too.

This morning's campus wildlife is once again the tiny Eastern Dwarf Tree Frog in its favourite leaf nest, and an Australasian Grebe (one of two on the lake this morning).

#AustralianWildlife #WildOz #EasternDwarfTreeFrog #AustralasianGrebe #bird #frog

A tiny Eastern Dwarf Tree Frog nestled in a "nest" of grasshopper chewed leaves above an unripe orange.

A small aquatic bird with a fluffy butt and pointy beak swimming across a fairly calm lake surface.

@dhobern oh nice. I’ll update the inaturalist post.

I just found a pretty cool looking moth on the veranda.

#insect #moth #AustralianWildlife #WildOz

Side view of a white moth with brown markings and red furry underside.

Top view of a white moth with brown markings and red furry underside. The markings are a light brown, and roughly in curved lines.

Front view of a white moth with brown markings and red furry underside.

@Ada indeed! But this one stayed with us the entire time, only wandering off a couple of metres away before coming back. I suspect it was hoping for food.

While at a lunch meeting outside, we were visited by a curious Buff-banded Rail.

#bird #AustralianWildlife #WildOz #BuffBandedRail

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