The Froggies are a courting... (and keeping us up at night).
It is rainy season and for the last few day we have had heavy rain squalls from two low pressure areas and now we are reading a third one is coming our way.
and with all the rain, the bullfrogs have appeared again and are singing all night and keeping us awake.
we get them here after the rain, since the drainage ditches are open and connect to the river. I am not sure what type of frogs they are: the one I saw was not like the Philippine bullfrog but dark greenbrown and the size of American bullfrog which is an invasive species here.
Indeed, it might be an American bullfrog (or a Chinese bull frog) because a lot of frogs here are alienspecies.
Photo of alien bullfrogs (link only due to copyright)in the Philippines
we have two fishponds but usually only see the frogs after the rain, when they move around. After one typhoon, they were in a drainage area under the front window and when it got deep, quite a few got stuck in there and we rescued half a dozen but some had already died, sigh.
and the dogs chase them (so far no cane toads, whose skin is poisonous to dogs, but nevertheless I have saved one last week from the dogs, who kill rats, cats, and other vermin in our business compound).
After one rainstorm, the dogs went crazy in my room and I found a cowering frog. When I tried to catch it, it hopped out the hole in the floor boards (where the wood had rotted from 20 years of water dripping from the airconditioner).
So even if you live in a western style house you have all sorts of critters visiting: bugs, spiders, lizards, mice, rats snails and frogs.
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