For the last four weeks it's been pretty quiet on the frog front. The dam had nearly dried out (apart from the sump we dug last year to keep the tadpoles alive) and we'd had some really hot weather. It was just too hot to keep the tadpoles on the back verandah - and I wasn't keeping up with the pace of frog emergence. I was taking the frogs down to the dam because there seemed to be way more food there for frogs, and enough moisture for them to get by even if the sump dried out. In the end I decided just to dump the whole lot back into the sump a couple of weeks ago and they seem to have been fine there.

Over the last couple of days we've had 34mm of beautiful, steady rain and it's put about 30cm of muddy water in the dam. The frogs tonight are going crazy! They started today (spotted marsh frogs) and this evening we can hear all three species - spadefoot, spotted marsh frog, and pobblebonk. The pobblebonk seems to be exclusively from the dam but the other two are coming from both dam and pond. Amazing sounds.