Frog-in-the-hall

When I opened the front door the other night to feed the rabbits, I found this little creature waiting for me. And then he hopped inside! He must have thought that our carpet was a lily pond.


We've worked out that he was a Southern Bell frog, a descendant of one introduced from Australia in the 1860s from Tasmania. He has a number of special features which helped us to identify him:

• Dark brown or black blotches on the back
  
• A pale green stripe down the middle of their back
  
• The belly looks granular
• The fingers lack webbing while the toes are almost completely webbed
• There are no suckers on the ends of their toes or fingers