I got the identification of this frog wrong when I first posted this particular blog post. Apologies to readers (and to the frogs!) and thank you Miguel who pointed it out. It has taken me a while to make the changes. I have been back to see these frogs again at the airport at La Coruna and may follow up with some more photographs.
Perez’s frog floating on a pond surface
Perez’s frog (Pelpphylax perezi) mating
Whilst I was waiting for a flight back to London at the small airport at La Coruna, in northwest Spain, I went for a walk outside the terminal building and found a pond full of mating frogs! It was a nice way to spend the time waiting for my flight and I was able to watch and photograph the frogs in the Spring sunshine. Spring was certainly in the air for these frogs, which are Perez’s frog, also known as Iberian waterfrog, Iberian green frog, or Coruna frog (Pelophylax perezi) (1) and they were croaking away and hurling themselves at each other with abandon!
Perez’s frogs leaping
This was presumably their mating ritual, although most of the leaps ended in one frog colliding into another, or missing it completely as the other frog swiftly moved out of the…
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