Travel Tips

Frogs around Perth are diminishing in numbers because their natural habitat is being used up for houses. So we made our garden frog friendly, dozens of them have come.
We followed the advice from Alcoa Frogwatch in conjuction with Murdock University.

see :-
www.museum.wa.gov.au/frogwatch

The frogs pictured here are Motorbike frogs, so called because they make a noise like a little scrambler motorbike.

They're a bit bit silly and sometimes fall into the swimming pool. We fish them out, they don't seem to mind.

This year we had hundreds of tadpoles in our pond and fed them with frozen spinach and fish food.

On sunny days they come out to bask in the sun. Earlier in the year they sit up under the pergola roof.

Their colour varies and can change a little according to their surroundings, usually shades of green and yellow with striped markings. No two are the same.

They are tree frogs and can climb, they like it on the pergola by the mozzie zapper where they can catch lots of insects.

They can travel quite a distance accross land. They often go walkabout, especially after rain.

Somtimes they actually sit ON the mozzie zapper.

We often watch them come out of their hideyholes in the ground cover in the evening and climb up the pergola poles.

This is a baby moaning frog, we fish them out of the pool all the time. Last year we had moaning frogs in the garden for the first time. At first we thought their little wails were cute, but when they get going they are just too loud. So now whenever we find them we take them to the creek just ouside our back wall.