Tree Frogs and Peach Cobbler

We live in a Garden Home with a lake on the common land behind the rear courtyard of our house. For whatever reason the Tree Frogs have taken up our back courtyard as a refuge, with one frog at a time living in the Wandering Jew Plant hanging on a shepherd's hook in the flower bed, or in the potted plants the wife has on my Bonsai deck. They are ok until dark and then they "peep" out so loud we can't stay in the den.

What's a guy to do?

Well, I have become a master catcher of frogs - I think eleven so far this year. I have recorded the calls on my iPhone and when they start peeping I go out and play the calls back to them. So far, their presence has been limited to only one at a time on the deck or flower bed. They think the iPhone recording is another frog and they will peep back at it as long as I want to play it. Outside, their peeps are loud enough to hurt my ears - makes it pretty easy to locate them.

I hand grabbed the first two or three off of the wood fence separating our courtyard from the common area and the pond, which is full of their friends and relatives.

What do I do with a trapped frog? I take them a quarter mile down the street to the big pond in our neighborhood and release them.

After a few days of hand grabbing, I switched to a glass pint jelly jar, which they don't see coming and will sit there peeping until I place the open jar over them to complete the catch.

Here are a few I have caught

Kevin



Doug



Paul



Billy



There are others, but you get the idea. I am not yet a famous catcher of frog, but in my mind I have great talent.


Tonight, I caught and released Billy. Then I had a nice serving of Peach Cobbler to celebrate my eleventh successful catch and release.






If anyone is looking for a nice, somewhat noisy amphibian pet, I can fix you up. If anything like it has been going, the next frog will make his way to our courtyard in a couple or three days. Just let me know.