{"id":7321,"date":"2015-08-03T07:22:04","date_gmt":"2015-08-03T11:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/p4td.lightshedder.com\/?p=7321"},"modified":"2015-08-03T07:25:36","modified_gmt":"2015-08-03T11:25:36","slug":"northern-leopard-frog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/?p=7321","title":{"rendered":"Northern Leopard Frogs Rule!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Northern Leopard Frog. Alwive Pond, Alwive Pond Woods, Kennebunk Land Trust<\/p><\/div>\n

There may have been no Moose at Alwive Pond in the Alwive Pond Woods Preserve of the Kennebunk Land Trust, but there were certainly a lot of Northern Leopard Frogs. I do not know what the tipping point is, but there are ponds in Southern Maine where the Bull Frog predominates to the exclusion of Leopard Frogs, and there are ponds where the Leopard Frog appears have displaced all the Bulls. Alwive Pond is Northern Leopard Frog territory! They were everywhere along the pond edge in the boggy peat. You can actually get pretty close to a Northern Leopard Frog…much closer, in my experience, than you can get to any Bull Frog. \ud83d\ude42 I love the pattern on the skin, and I find the Leopard Frog elegant, when compared to a Bull Frog. I am glad to find that they have their strongholds, places where the Northern Leopard Frog rules, and that one is in Alwive Woods.<\/p>\n

This is a collage of 4 views, representing 3 frogs, assembled in Coolage. All images with the Sony HX90V at various equivalent fields of view, from 50mm to 200mm. Processed in Lightroom.<\/p>\n

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