The Night of the Leopard Frog
I spent six hours becoming one with a shrubbery last night. There were three cloudbursts and a rain of small and very confused frogs.... ~ Charles Stross, from The Atrocity Archives RGLF seems stunned by the light. The frogs were out at at Berry Springs Park last night - most of them Rio Grande Leopard Frogs. They hopped erratically from the low grass along the creek to deeper grass and, finally, into the water - and we failed in each early attempt to photograph or catch them (at least 6 "got away"). They were moving fast...and we were not... OC and KM documenting the first frog of the evening. And then we (I use the royal "we" as I caught nothing) began to catch frog after frog - initially only RGLF. We heard their purr and crackling conversation amidst Green Treefrog "barking," Blanchard's Cricket Frog "clicking," and American Bullfrog "bellowing." Green Treefrog We followed the Green Tree Frog calls to the ditch in the pecan o