Autumn Sunshine

This petite beauty was found shading itself from the midday sun today. It is the Eastern Dwarf Tree Frog, Litoria fallax. The leaf of the Pandora pandorana cv. "Ruby Belle" was found to be the perfect sunshade. It also shows how small this little amphibian is. 

Eastern Dwarf Tree Frog, Litoria fallax

Common in the Highfields district, you'll often hear it calling from rank vegetation. At Peacehaven listen out beside the wildlife area near the Old Dairy. One field guide describes its call as a 'ratchet-like "Reek...pip. Reek---pip...pip".' 

Backyard Birds of the Toowoomba Region Workshop

WHEN: 18 May 2013 

WHERE: In the State Emergency Headquarters, K Block, 165 Hume St, Toowoomba

Program:
10 am:
    1. Opening by Mayor, Paul Antonio

    2. The National Birds in Backyard Program (Holly Parsons, Birds in Backyards Program 
          Manager)
    3. Suitable plants to attract birds (Patricia Gardner, Toowoomba Field Naturalists Club)
    4. Cultivated plants suitable/available for Toowoomba gardens (Lauren Marlatt, Toowoomba SGAP)
    5. How to identify birds (Mick Atzeni, Toowoomba Bird Observers Club)
    6. Using Bird Finder program and reporting birds to BIBY web site online (Grahame Rogers, BirdLife Southern Queensland)

12 noon:
    Lunch

1 pm – 4 pm:  
    Field trip to bird-friendly gardens (inner city, large block on urban fringe of the 
       Toowoomba Field Naturalist Club members ).

Cost $5 (to be paid on arrival).


RSVP essential to Grahame Rogers gwrogers[at]bigpond.com or 07 4698 1727 (Please replace 'at' with the symbol.)