Local Frogs

With Spring approaching plus endless rain, the local frog population is very vocal, and one can hear them in most parts of this large garden.  I often find them when weeding or doing other things in the garden, and will sometimes capture them for a short while, take some photos and then release again where they were found. Here are a couple of my recent finds – they are all very small.

The one on the right is the most common Litoria ewinii, the Southern Brown Tree Frog.  As there is a huge variation in colour and markings in this species, the other smaller one may be the same, but I am not sure and cannot find a way of identifying it clearly from this source.  It was very small, and was found buried rather than just under some leaf litter so could be something different as it also seemed to have a different shape.  This is it sitting on my thumbnail.

Some others…

PS.  Today ( 1/8/12) I received an answer from the Melbourne Museum Discovery Centre, to whom I had sent the above photo in the hope they might identify this little dark frog for me.  This is their response:-
This is probably either a Common Eastern Froglet (Crinia signifera) or an Eastern Sign-bearing Froglet (aka Beeping Froglet – Crinia parasignifera). These two froglets would probably be found in this area and they can really only be identified easily by their calls – the calls can be listened to on the MV website at http://museumvictoria.com.au/bioinformatics/frog/
So now we know!