A co-worker comes up to me last week during lunch, says he needs me to do him a favor: He went to open the door to one of the work vans and felt something "squishy and wet" behind the door handle. He couldn't figure out what it was. "Could you please go look at it and see if you can get it out?"

Sigh. So I go down and check out this door handle, and see a striped eye looking out at me. I pull out the handle and see this little guy tucked within the plastic shape. I nudged the frog out with a finger, and it jumped onto the side doors. After a couple of quick camera phone shots - it's all I had - I gave the tiny frog another gentle shove so it would hop on out to the grass behind the parking lot, and it disappeared in the greenery.





I don't know my frogs too well, so any ID help is appreciated. It was maybe 3 inches long, brownish or golden color, dark stripe down its flanks. Very agile. It's been raining a lot here in South Florida so who knows where it originated, especially since that van has been getting around a lot for the past couple of weeks. It could have come from any of the marinas between Palm Beach and Miami-Dade counties.