...Or so it seemed to me and my husband when we sauntered down to the pond one warm evening last weekend at Prairie Pond Woods. The next night we took our super-charged, zillion-candlelight flashlight down, along with the camera, to see if we could capture this amphibious orgy that seemed to be going on. There must have been hundreds of green frogs and toads floating, fighting and you-know-what-ing all over the surface of the water. Although the fog only allowed us to see about halfway out on the pond with the light, it was still a bit eerie to see a blanket of little, glowing eyes shining back at us (look closely).
Normally, the call of the green frog sounds like a single loose banjo string being plucked, and the toad call is an extended trill...but on this night we also heard a high, sweet cooing sound. Our photography at the pond was short-lived, maybe about 20 minutes, because the noise created by the spring peepers surrounding us was deafening! Amphibians put on quite the show!! Below are a few of the better shots and the best we could do on such a foggy and overcast night.
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