So, before I went and hurt my back muscle, we (Joyce & I) spent a lot of time doing a bunch of different yardwork in her backyard. In addition to the greenery and ponds, her yard is full of wildlife. Please enjoy these shots of frogs and chipmunks I took earlier this week…
< Large frog (about 8cm) living in Joyce’s patio pond
< Smaller frog (about 4cm). A baby perhaps?
There are currently a total of four of the adult sized frogs, and two babies. The adults seem to split their time between the backyard pond and the patio pond. Last Saturday we spent most of the day working in and around the patio, clearing off the debris of winter and early spring. We unearthed many worms during this work, and fed them to the appreciative frogs. Joyce even managed to get one to eat a worm out of her hand!
< Chipmunk on the wood pile
< Chipmunk at the big pond
The chipmunks are cute. Very skittery though; always on the look out for danger. The one in the top photo has a habit of sitting on the top of the woodpile and chirping for minutes on end (a high pitched squeaking sound). We have some of these at our place, but the ones here at Jim & Joyce’s house are either more active during the day, or less afraid of people. Or perhaps there is just more and better hiding places they can quickly duck into when they feel threatened.
The photos are great, especially the chipmunks. You aren’t using your tiny Sony camera to take those shots I’ll bet, they look like SLR pics to me.
Jim & Joyce’s backyard must be very healthy; frogs wouldn’t hang around if that was not the case. I envy her (Joyce) the frogs. In Niederdhunn where I grew up as a kid and in New Guinea, I was always surrounded by frogs. Here in Newcastle I can not even remember when I saw my last frog.