Summer rain and frog spotting
The thunder clouds have been threatening for a while but today Kaohsiung received it’s first large showers of the plum rains that signal the start of the long hot humid summer ahead.
It is that time of year when the house starts to leak, leather boots and food stains go mouldy and everyone starts looking for any cool relief available.
The first rain also brought the recently harvested rice field adjacent to us to life with the sound of frogs. This evening there were hundreds of them all singing in the new wet season. The kids were very excited to put on gum-boots and headlamps and do a bit of frog spotting between rain showers.
Here is one frog going through the croaking motions.
The sound of all those frogs was really wonderful. Here you can see the vibrations in the surrounding water as he croaks away.
And of course there were other slimmies and crawlies to discover as well.
[…] Shan Ding Lu photographs the frogs in the fields. […]