Joining the Woodfordia Tree Huggers and attending the monthly meet ups, is a great opportunity to experience the Woodford Folk Festival site without the mass crowds, demountable buildings & Tents. It’s so different that I found myself completely disorientated despite frequent festival visits to the area.
One thing that really stands out is the wildlife . When all the events have packed down and moved out, the wildlife quickly moves back in. Loads of Wallaby families, Lace monitors & Snakes. And some are always there but go mostly unnoticed during the noise of festival time such as Birds, Possums & a very large number of Frog species.
Frogs are one of our favourite little creatures. And the WFF site has no shortage of them. One in particular is the Dwarf Eastern Green Tree Frog, largely confined to the Southeast region of Queensland Australia. And probably the most abundant species here on site.
During the March Tree huggers meet up (& Planting / Dreaming Program Launch) (2010) Rosanna and I were on a special mission. See, Rosanna is a Florist and contained in a delivery of flowers from the supplier was a tiny little stow away. The cutest little Dwarf Eastern Green Tree Frog & already owning a few aquariums, Rose rescued him and built a large home as close to his natural habitat as possible. However now after observing him chase and devour tiny crickets for a few months, it was now time to let him go in a place where he can live a frogs life.
And finding an area to release him was easy. Spending the huggers morning clearing weeds in the day camping areas, we discovered an unusually large amount of his species. up to 5 on one single leaf. and around 50 in one single shrub, along the edge of the ponds in the area. And another good sign, everyone of them looked rather plump and very contented.
So just before we headed home, and after all the weed clearing had finished, we Headed down to the same area and released him.
And I’m not making this up, it was like a story book.
we opened his little transport container, and he instantly lifted his head up and leapt out onto a large leaf. Within seconds another much smaller eastern green hopped over and sat right next to him. then after a few seconds, they both hopped off together into the shrub. It was beautiful.
And now during the Planting Festival, Rosanna and I have joined Sam’s Frog Team, to located, Document and study the Frog Species on the site. This is just one of the environmental projects being undertaken here, along with the Butterfly project, Nesting Boxes, Orchid planting, Crayfish studies and much more.
Planting coverage Coming in a week or so.
For all the images from the March Tree Huggers Frog fest see here
http://www.flickr.com/photos/monkwhy/sets/72157623764311435/
