{"id":22480,"date":"2026-09-13T09:15:53","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T13:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/?p=22480"},"modified":"2026-09-13T09:15:53","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T13:15:53","slug":"northern-leopard-frog-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/?p=22480","title":{"rendered":"Northern Leopard Frog"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure data-carousel-extra='{\"blog_id\":1,\"permalink\":\"https:\\\/\\\/psnp.info\\\/p4td_\\\/?p=22480\"}'   class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"904\" height=\"708\" data-attachment-id=\"22478\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/?attachment_id=22478\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/dsc06681.jpg?fit=2000%2C1567&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2000,1567\" 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https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/dsc06759.jpg?w=1808&amp;ssl=1 1808w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 904px) 100vw, 904px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Northern Leopard Frog: Kennebunk Plains Nature Conservancy, W. Kennebunk, Maine, USA, September 2026 \u2014 The pond on the south side of the road on the Kennebunk Plains is managed for trout by the State, so it was drained this spring during frog mating season to eliminate invasive bass. Good for the trout, bad for the frogs. It is taking the pond some time to recover. I take this small Northern Leopard Frog on the shore is a good sign. Sony RX10 V at 600mm equivalent. Cropped to about 1100 and 750mm effective field of view. My Birds and Wildlife Mode. 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Kennebunk, Maine, USA, September 2026 \u2014 The pond on the south side of the road on the Kennebunk Plains is managed for trout by the State, so it was drained this spring during frog mating season to eliminate invasive bass. Good for the trout, bad for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-22480\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/?p=22480&amp;share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\"><span>Twitter<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-22480\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/?p=22480&amp;share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\"><span>Facebook<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/?p=22480&amp;share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email this to a friend\"><span>Email<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[305],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p26ui8-5QA","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}