About 15 minutes away from my parents place near Bankstown Square; in the industrial suburbs of Western Sydney, remain remnant habitats for frogs communities.

Located on Darug and Eora Ancestral Lands and Waterways, the site is wedged between the Chullora Railway Yards, the Coxs Creek run-off canal and a asphalt-concrete works along a battle-axe shaped piece of ‘Community Land’; zoned by Strathfield LEP 2012-E2 for Environmental Conservaition.

I called up scientist Dr John Gould when I was on site in the early afternoon. By 3pm, the frogs were already calling on this warm spring day, presumably they were hiding unseen from the two netted ponds found on site.

Quietly sitting there, I turned on my sound recorder, took some photos and filmed the surrounds.

Over the phone, John told me he could mostly hear the Crinia signifera (the Common Eastern Froglet) with their baby rattle or cricket like chirps. These frogs had a year round mating season. But in the time when the wattles were beginning to bloom, you can hear their frog song overlap with the distinctive croak of the Litoria aurea (Green and Golden Bell Frog), who were only now starting to enter their mating season.