A visit from young Froggie

[w1vtp]

I noticed this visitor on my shack window the other night.  I think it's a youngster.  Note the shot with the ruler.  He's about an inch long.  He stuck around long enough for me to take a top side shot - one with flash and one without.  Note how translucent he is in the no-flash pic.  You can see the part of his eyes that are inside his skull.

Yes, I know, I need to wash my windows - I'm so lazy

Al

[w1vtp]

Top view

[WQ9E]

Al, nice photos of your visitor!  Those little suction cup feet are very effective.

There are a pair of these that usually hang out near one door.  My wife is a big fan of these little climbers and the doorbell for that door is modeled after the frog.  Perhaps they take that as a friendly sign.

They can make an amazing amount of noise for their size.

[W3RSW]

Fascinating Al. You did science using that ruler.  Nothing like a little calibration.

'Bout those windows.  Why? You'll just have to wash them again later.  Always wait for company to come if you must, heh, heh.  Then only the rooms they'll see. That's my motto.

[W2PFY]

Is that a heptode?

[W3RSW]

Good one.  -  He's in the swim and ultra Kuhl.

Actually a  Heptoadus grapplineus.

[AB1OQ]

Hmm I have a visitor too a praying mantis

[AJ1G]

I had a surprise visit from a HUGE bullfrog late last Sunday night in the basement workshop/garage at our cottage up in Charlestown, RI.  He must have hopped in the open door from the driveway to listen to the Red Sox Yankees game with me.
He must have weighed close to two pounds.

We suspected he was likely the resident bullfrog that hangs around our neighbor's water garden pond, so Diane put him in a bucket and brought him over to the pond and released him.

I told our neighbors about it the next morning, they had a laugh and told me that the frog most likely an aggressive one that they had caught in their pond earlier on Sunday and released into the water of Watchaug Pond  at the beach about 500 yards down the hill from the cottages.  He had driven out their friendly "resident" frog and was eating the pond's young koi.  They still haven't been able to get him out again.  Quite the little traveler!

BTW, he seemed to smile when A-Rod got plunked by Dempster during the ball game.

[KF1Z]

Personally, I'd rather have frogs on the doors, than what we get greeted with some mornings on the front step!

[W2PFY]

Personally, I'd rather have frogs on the doors, than what we get greeted with some mornings on the front step!

Well at least what you have is good to eat! I see people eat those things including the stinger? I wonder how that works?