Wood frog at night

The days remain warm and dry, and the nights, while cooler, are not yet close enough to the frost zone that quiet reigns among the crickets and katydids. In fact, evenings have been downright noisy, so much so that I continue to make night-time trips outside to record the orthopteran chorus and see if I can find and photograph some of the singers. While I was busy getting a picture of a bush katydid that landed on the kitchen storm door, I heard a rustling in the nearby Japanese holly, and when I went to investigate, I spotted a very fat wood frog exploring the leaf litter. From the large size and the light color, I'd guess that it's probably a female, and from her behavior, I figure that she's scouting out likely places to hunker down and spend the winter, remarkably enough, frozen solid and in suspended animation. No chance of that yet: tonight, she's plenty animated.