Trilling Frogs

I just realised...some of you may have no idea what a Trilling Frog is.
I even wrote a song about them.
I'm obviously going to have to dig up the lyrics and publish the MP3s now that I am officially a web geek. (Yes, I know all you true geeks are saying to yourself, not if she still can't get her links right).

The Trilling Frog is one of my favourite Outback creatures - and I'm a sucker for snakes, geckos and frogs.
The frog only comes out at night when there's been enough rain to soak down through the clay levels where it has burrowed to escape the dry.
They literally come out, breed, give birth in the puddles and go back to sleep for as long as 10 years (if only, eh?).
Local opal miners have found them in the clay levels above potch and opal veins and quite a few locals up here have fished one out of the swimming pool and ended up with a family pet in a fishtank of sand.

The thing is, when they sing, it richochets out over the desert, and while not the best looks or the most melodious sound, these guys are unique to this part of the world - as were we, the 'Trilling Frogs'. To listen to the original 'Trilling Frogs', log onto http://www.environment.sa.gov.au/epa/frogcensus/central.html.
My daughter actually brought this site home to me from her science class and we had lots of funs listening to frog calls - I showed her the difference between the rainforest frogs I grew up with and the desert frogs we now here on rainy nights.

For the not-so-original but equally local 'Trilling Frogs' - check out my link at the right - I'm the one singing 'He's a Rebel' and 'California Dreaming' - and in my defence, I never said we were good, just that we were unique.