Great Excitement In My Backyard!
I have long suspected that I have more than one male motorbike frog in my backyard. All that noise could not possibly be made by just one lone male. And recently it was confirmed that I have infact two boys competing for attention with their melodic calls.
But tonight – joy of joys – as I was watering my garden and topping up the water in my Koi pond I found that, not two, but three little mannies are living in the hibiscus shrub behind my pond.
At first I noticed a tussle in the bushes and looked closely to see what was going on, but they got shy and all I saw for sure was a frog retreating under cover.
Soon, though they reappeared one at a time and seemed to be fighting over who was to be on top. It seemed that my boys were becoming tired of the monastic life!
They were both calling wildly, the one on the bottom rather more frantically, so I’m sure they were both boys. But then, lo and behold, another call sounded from nearby.
Standing statue-like with my hose running into the pond, I scanned the area (it was semi dark – just their scene) and located a third male, throat engored, sounding for all the world like a motor bike racing around the sheep paddock.
The loser of the wrestling match got tired of his lot in life and jumped into the pond, swam across and hopped out at my feet, closely followed by his “mate”.
They hopped across to the swimming pool, which for some reason is not in the best of shape at the moment – $150 worth of chemicals later – and one jumped in and swam to a floating pool inflatable island, where he continued his serenade.
Manny number two gave up the chase and returned to the pond, but number three thought he’d join in the fun of a twilight dip and neatly hurdled my toes on the way to the pool.
By this time I was sure I’d be suffering calisi or Ross River Virus by morning if I didn’t get inside so I had to abandon the pose and scuttle inside.
Life is great!
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