Subject: Pacific Chorus Frogs anyone
Date: Jul 11 20:07:40 1999
From: Ruth Sullivan - godwit at worldnet.att.net


Hello Kelly,
I am glad you give me a lesson about Frogs. I was looking for my Field
Guide to North American Amphibians and could not find it. I am looking at
it right now, there are so many. Most of the time you dont see them without
it is a Tree Frog.Some one mention the Black birds also would eat the
Dragonflies, but i only saw one female Red-winged Blackbird the whole time
i was there. There had to be quite few Black Birds to eat that many
Dragonflies. Thank you for responding. I learn somthing new every day.
Ruth Sullivan
Tacoma

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> From: Kelly Mcallister <mcallkrm at dfw.wa.gov>
> To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
> Subject: Re: Pacific Chorus Frogs anyone
> Date: Sunday, July 11, 1999 8:22 AM
>
>
>
> On Sat, 10 Jul 1999, Ruth Sullivan wrote:
>
> > ... with Frogs Where ever i go now looking for Dragonflies i see
> > and hear a lot. Some time there scare me when there clunk in to the
water.
> > Remember i most all the time are right on the edge of ponds. But for
the
> > first time ever i discovert WINGS from Dragonflies laying on the edges
of
> > the pond. This is in Olympia Puget Sound Community Collage.
>
>
> At South Puget Sound Community College there are Bullfrogs (and Pacific
> Treefrogs). Frogs that jump from the pond's edge into the water when
> you approach are typically Bullfrogs (which usually give an "eep" when
> they jump), red-legged frogs (which are silent), or Cascades Frogs
(higher
> in the mountains and silent like red-legged frogs). I suspect what you
are
> seeing (or hearing plop in the water) are juvenile bullfrogs. And, they
> probably are eating the emerging dragonflies.
>
> Kelly McAllister