Your leopard frog is a bit darker than ours at the nature preserve.
Do you know what kind of frog does a high-pitched "eek!" before going in the water? We hear those regularly during walks [in the course of which we pick up litter every day. Some folks restore scores of acres; others keep a few miles of trail picked-up].
Our leopard frogs very in color (some more brownish, some this green) and also in color saturation with both breeding season and how wet they are.
Leopard frogs make that "eek!" before jumping in and making a hard 90degree turn underwater. Ours are quite loud and startling until you get used to it (if you do.) If water's muddy or cloudy, you can't see it (and neither can predator!) I've only seen the turn a few times, but I've read about it and knew to look for it. If I'm super-lucky someday I'll get a photo of a leopard frog "in flight."
Depending on where you are, your leopard frogs may also be a different species. North of us a ways are the Great Plains leopard frogs...east TX has Southern Leopard Frogs...and the northeast has Northern Leopard Frogs. Some books show Rio Grande Leopard Frogs as brown with dark spots, but ours are commonly green-backed with brown legs...though some are almost all green, and some are almost all brown.
Now I'm hearing "It's Not Easy Being Green", especially Heather Dale's version on her latest album "Imagineer" [which is on youtube, but not on the album on bandcamp--https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DphEk1fHbyM -- {lyrics to the right of the songs}, where you can listen to the whole song for free]. The album has several of your favorites, including "Never Set The Cat On Fire". "One Of Us" is the song I first recommended to Tamora Pierce, who became a big Heather Dale fan.
For the space-inclined, there's "Somebody Will", written by Ada Palmer of Sassafrass. Contrasting all the different versions of that one on youtube is very instructive, especially to someone who knows more about music, like you. Each arrangement has its own grace. That song's been up for multiple Pegasus awards the last few years; I hope you'll listen for yourself & find out why.
Do you know what kind of frog does a high-pitched "eek!" before going in the water? We hear those regularly during walks [in the course of which we pick up litter every day. Some folks restore scores of acres; others keep a few miles of trail picked-up].
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Leopard frogs make that "eek!" before jumping in and making a hard 90degree turn underwater. Ours are quite loud and startling until you get used to it (if you do.) If water's muddy or cloudy, you can't see it (and neither can predator!) I've only seen the turn a few times, but I've read about it and knew to look for it. If I'm super-lucky someday I'll get a photo of a leopard frog "in flight."
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For the space-inclined, there's "Somebody Will", written by Ada Palmer of Sassafrass. Contrasting all the different versions of that one on youtube is very instructive, especially to someone who knows more about music, like you. Each arrangement has its own grace. That song's been up for multiple Pegasus awards the last few years; I hope you'll listen for yourself & find out why.
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