Finding a leopard frog in the yard is not unusual. In fact finding 15 or 20 or 30 is not unusual. We have a small rubber-bottomed “frog puddle that we dug during our 10 year drought to accommodate the seasonally amorous southern toads. Not only did the toads find the water but so, too, did the bronze frogs, green treefrogs, small bullfrogs, and leopard frogs. I initially thought that the anuran population would overrun the capacity of the puddle but then the black racers found the frogs and all was equalized.

But then to evade the snakes (or maybe just because they wanted to move) many frogs found our goldfish pond. The racers followed, breeding sufficiently so we had anuran and serpent populations at both ponds and if I allow the grass to grow a tad long these (and other) herps are found all over the property.

But that leopard frog that decided to partake of the moth banquet at my office windows was a first. And it’s been there for the last 4 nights. I wonder how long it will be until a black racer finds it?

Oh, and I sat the soaked camera atop an aquarium light and let it slowly dry. It’s now as good as new. Well almost as good as new.

Florida leopard frogs are common in our small frog ponds.


Another backyard Florida leopard frog.