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Photographer John Luff, of JL Images, writes: “Out of adversity shines prosperity. Surely there are those poor souls who have suffered in the recent heavy rains, though it’s heartening to see the return of many frogs to the Sunshine Coast. I took this image in Palmwoods of what looks like a tiny Eastern sedgefrog (Litoria fallax), safely nestled in my wife’s hand.”

Another SCN reader says it might in fact be a graceful tree frog, also known as a dainty tree frog.

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