Here's a couple of frogs my kids were playing with last week. I have no idea what species they are. There was a small group of them found in the pool one morning.



I'm guessing they came up from the creek overnight, which has extremely little water left in it. We've been in drought for four years now. In fact it was 47C (116.6F) that day, 'whew!'.

Over time we've discovered in the pool, Bee Swarms, Wasps, Snakes, a Duck, Rabbits, Spiders, and the usual assortment of other insects.

It looks like some type of toad. I'm not sure what species. They won't need to be kept in water. The only time they will go to a pond is to lay eggs.

I had a bit of a poke about on

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, a very extensive, and impressive, Australian Frog site. It look's like these are young Eastern Banjo Frogs, or Limnodynastes dumerili. Also known as the 'Pobblebonk'. They even had a MP3 to download, so you could listen to the Banjo's. But it wasn't much of a tune...

So there you go. On Aquatic Babble, I reckon I learn something new every day!

So it is a frog. It looks similar to the toads around here.

Well, it certainly demonstrated how little I know about our Native Frogs. I thought maybe six or seven types of Frog in Australia (plus Cane Toads!). There's page's and page's of them, and that's just in Victoria alone!