A wood frog is a silent, small creature with webbed hind feet. These feet make it a poor leaper in comparison with other frogs and makes it helpless to its predators which are the trout and the blue heron.

The wood frog lives in glacial ponds in northern Colorado. In May they come out from wintering sites underneath logs. They move to breeding ponds while there is still ice on the water. They eat earthworms, insects and spiders. If they eat much, they lay up to 1,250 eggs. Few eggs survive in warm water. In 1979, it became the first amphibian to be put on the endangered species list. Not because of people, just because of their predators! But now that humans are destroying the blue herons' habitat and eating the trout, the wood frog is saved.

I got my information from COLORADO WILDLIFE by Jeff Rennicke.