If you are frogging you often need beanie! and your wet weather gear. Its best when wet hence in the colder winter-time in south-west WA.

I am learning heaps about the habits of frogs and below are frogs I have found so far.

Autumn Breeders – in hope for winter rains

• Bleating Froglet Crinia pseudinsignifera
  • on top boulder rock – in May – not confirmed yet
  • seen Mundaring Nearer to Nature pond – in May
  • Found associated with granite

Bleating Froglet @ Mundaring

Winter Breeders – Soggy & Boggy

• Slender Tree Frog Litoria adelaidensis
  • Wellard Alcoa Wetland – June after Cold Fronts – calling floating in water among reeds – hard to spot – easy to hear calls
  • Gosnells. John Oakey park – found in bushland on wet nights and amongst reeds along river

Slender tree frog

Slender tree frog

Slender tree frog

• Squelching Froglet Crinia insignifera
  • Wellard Alcoa Wetland – June after Cold Fronts – call from shallow water or in sodden vegetation – very difficult to spot – easy to hear calls

• Quacking Frog (almost like duck) Crinia georgiana – shallow water and seeps
  • Boulder Rock – seep breeder – tadpoles develop quickly as water so shallow
  • Lesmurdie Falls – heard on wet early June night – female? Found on path
  • Whistlepipe Gully – seen in late May – rainy night

Quacking froglet @ Whistlepipe Gully, Lesmurdie

Quacking frog @ Lesmurdie falls