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A nice full view of a wood frog. These first few photos are the newest in this collection, and were taken with my new Dimage Z3 camera, which in addition to having a huge 12x optical zoom, also has a super-macro mode that lets me get down to a half inch away from the subject. This allowed me to capture these frogs with beautiful detail.
I always enjoy taking these head on shots like the frog is looking right at you.
Looking up.
A full side view of a different frog.
Head on view.
Nose, eye, and eardrum. The eardrum is the circular shape to the right of the eye.
A wood frog sits on moss.
A wood frog sits on moss.
A wood frog sits on moss.
A wood frog sits on an old tree stump. Looks like the frog thinks its king of the world!
A close up shot of the frog on the stump.
A wood frog sits on some moss that was around the base of the stump shown in the previous two pictures.
This frog felt like being crouched down and out of view. Maybe it was camera shy!
A wood frog sits on moss facing the camera.
Sitting on a branch.
What are you looking at?
A lower viewpoint of the previous photo.
A wood frog sitting on my hand, giving you an idea of the size of an average adult wood frog. Note that holding frogs in your warm hands, especially the smaller ones, like western chorus frogs or spring peepers is not a good thing to do, and the longer the worse. The drastic change in temperature puts stress on their cold blooded systems. I have to say that my hands were not really warm that day, it was very cold out and my hands were about to go numb!
A wood frog sits on a rotting log.
The same frog, head-on view.
Sitting on the log.
A wood frog poses as a tree frog which wood frogs are not. Wood frogs are in a category which is known as "true frogs" True frogs are not the kind that climb things.
Looking at something.
I tried doing some of the similar poses that I did in the daytime at night. Here, a wood frog is hiding in some moss.
Wood frog on moss.
Wood frog on moss.
Wood frog on moss.
I carefully lifted these wood frog eggs a bit out of the water to get a shot of them. Once the tadpoles hatch, it can often be a race to become a frog before the temporary pond waters dry up. Although transformation occurs during the tadpole stage, the actual growth of size occurs after they become frogs. A newly transformed wood frog is less than half the size of the very tiny Western Chorus Frogs!
A wood frog sits on some leaves out of the pond.
A recently transformed wood frog sits on some moss. Growth in terms of size continues well after a tadpole becomes a frog; this is a very small wood frog, who will still do a lot of growing.
Another view of the baby wood frog on moss.
Another view of the baby wood frog on moss.
