On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 02:20:46PM -0400, Graydon wrote: > On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 07:49:46PM -0400, ann sanfedele scripsit: > > paul stenquist wrote: > >> Nice shot. Shows off his camouflage in situ. Well done. > > > > if you know he's in situ, camouflage can't be that good > > > > (ann ducks) > > > > but seriously... > > certainly looks like a leopard frog... good capture I'd probably ahve > > never seen him > > Thanks, Ann. > > The generic spot-things trick -- hold still, stop talking, and look at > nothing in particular -- works for frogs, too. > > And if one can see absolutely no frogs, start looking at the reedy > margins for a heron or a bittern. :)
They can be rather hard to spot, as they are nervous around people - a pattern of behaviour noted in the aphorism "Once bittern, twice shy". -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
