With Robyn's good help, I'm learning a bit about what I have in and around my pond/waterfall. Not counting toads that mostly hop around the yard and the driveway (I haven't seen so many here in South Carolina this year as in past years) and not counting my tree frogs that have apparently been run off by the others, I have mostly pickerel's in the ivy around the pond (rectangular spots all over body rather than leopard's which would have round spots) and young bull's mostly in the pond (some striping on rear legs but no spots on body or front legs). How am I doing? Are those fairly accurate distinctions?

Here is my question: I hear a lot about green frogs - what are their characteristics? How do they differ, say, from bull's?

Thanks in advance for any comments.
Tom

I can just tell by looking at a frog if it's a bullfrog or green frog but it's harder to describe the difference. I put up photos somewhere on the site showing male and female bullfrogs and green frogs. I'll try to find it.

Bullfrogs usually have some stripes on their legs and a mostly uniform green color. Green frogs normally have a different color on the bottom than the top (or more of a difference). A simple way to tell them apart is that the two lines that go down their backs go all the way from the eye to the rear on the green frogs. That line is faint and shorter on bullfrogs.