While walking down the Walna Scar Road I came across this wonderful frog. I have never seen a frog anything so unusually colourful as this so I photographed it and when I got home uploaded the image to http://www.wildaboutbritain.co.uk/ a great site where you can call on enthusiasts and experts for help in identification of things seen in the wild. Thanks to them I know I have not discovered a new lakeland species of frog, this is just a common or garden ordinary frog apparently the range of colouration runs from the bog standard mucky greeny brown to grey blue and red so my orange specimen is in there with the best of them. It has however been recognised as an unusual example of the variation of Rano Temporaria.
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