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Frogs

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Category: General
Forum Name: What is it?
Forum Description: Seen something in the wild and wondering what it is? This is the place to ask
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Topic: Frogs
Posted By: Robert V
Subject: Frogs
Date Posted: 25 May 2017 at 6:46pm
So I was in Kent today and found these.
 
Now I take it the darker one is a Marsh Frog, but what about the other one?
 
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RobV



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Posted By: Robert V
Date Posted: 25 May 2017 at 6:47pm
Oh by the way, the lighter one was absolutely massive, bordering bull from proportions! R


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RobV


Posted By: will
Date Posted: 26 May 2017 at 6:32am
both marsh frog - I imagine loving the warm sunshine too!


Posted By: chubsta
Date Posted: 26 May 2017 at 5:14pm
I presume it is Marsh frogs that we see at Dungeness - the ones we see there are very dark, almost black, what would cause such colour variations? The habitat at Dungeness is mainly crystal clear water, very little weed except at the margins where it is rush etc rather than submerged weed.


Posted By: will
Date Posted: 30 May 2017 at 11:04pm
generally speaking they colour up and down very fast - greener in sunlight and brown in shade / at the start of the season.  But they also have varied mottlings and blotches depending on the individual that seem more permanent (could perhaps be used in recognition studies year on year?)



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