Angus McIntyre<p>It's time for <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MarshMadness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MarshMadness</span></a>!</p><p>This picture was taken not in a marsh, but in the Roman ruins at Al-Bass in Sour (Tyre), Lebanon. The frog is, however, a marsh frog (Rana ridibunda), so I think it counts.</p><p>At the risk of injecting a political note into a celebration of all things marshy, Al-Bass is adjacent to a Palestinian refugee camp that has been repeatedly bombed or shelled by Israeli forces, most recently in 2024.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/frogs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>frogs</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FrogsOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FrogsOfMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/reptiles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>reptiles</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ReptilesOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ReptilesOfMastodon</span></a></p>