AusBonsai

Hi. I have a slanting English Elm that I have posted here previously. It has two holes through the trunk and they need a clean out occasionally - to keep the spiders at bay. Anyway, today I checked the holes and one was "full". I took a couple of photos but I am not 100% sure what it is, but I think it's a small frog. It needs to be small as the holes are less than 1cm in diameter.
If anyone has any other suggestions, please let me know.
I have left the photo size a bit larger than I normally have them so you can get a better look at my new best friend.

Could also be a skink, but looks like a frog- it looks cute

You should charge him rent Watto.

They tell me frogs are rich and skinks are poor, so I'm just trying to work out how much to charge????
Ha ha ha.

I think it looks like a young Perons Tree Frog (Litoria peroni). Heres a photo of a young one: http://enhs.org.au/?p=501

Have you heard this sound in the afternoon of warm days and through the night? Click on the "hear it now" icon in the Calling section.
http://frogs.org.au/frogs/species/Litoria/peroni/

Joel

Thanks Joel, we do here a sound similar to that of a night.
We have what we call our "frog pond" in a garden close to where the bonsai are housed and today I took a photo of some activity in the pond. I don't know anything about frogs (except I like them) so maybe you could help to identify this one? I know its a tough ask!
It would be much appreciated.
I was told many years ago that frogs are a barometer of the environment so I was keen to supply a fairly natual setting where frogs may live, but the success rate has only been very average, but maybe the tide has turned?

I might take up nature photography, that pond looks good?

My frog pond is a recycled bathtub, behind a retaining wall so it is sorta underground and stays cool. Absolutely full of frogs now, despite having two tadpole eating goldfish. Experimenting with a large (1m high) aquarium in the shadehouse to hold water plants, if it seems to work will try some fish in there too. I have a lump of wood as a 'lizard ladder' to stop the lizards from dropping in and drowning, which they try fairly often.
You got a darling little resident in your treehole, and will keep the spiders away, dont charge him rent!

Hi Watto,

That is a tree frog of some description (you can tell by the "pads" on the toes). I don't think it is a perons tree frog as they often turn a pinkish colour when as they loose their tail. Try to grab some pics as it emerges if you want me to give another crack at it!

Joel

Joel - two and a half weeks of rain and I haven't seen a frog since, although I still hear them each night.
Greth - you have convinced me, no rent.

i'm guessing its a skink, Lampropholis delicata or L guichentoi. The head is too narrow to be a frog from what i can see in that pic