Category: spot the ________

Find the cat!

September 26, 2026 • 8:15 am

All I know of this photo is from reader Peter, who said, “quickly snapped this black street cat in Samoa.”  Your job is to spot it, and if you do, don’t give away its location in the comments, but just say “I found it.” I rate it “pretty easy”.

The reveal will be at noon Chicago time. 

I urge other readers to submit “spot the animal” photos, but if you do be sure not to put the critter at dead center.

Here’s the frog!

September 20, 2026 • 11:30 am

Did you spot the frog in the photo by Bob Woolley this morning? I’ll put the original photo up first, and then the reveal:

When I asked Robert how he saw it in the first place, he responded this way:

I saw the frog only because it was at the surface as I approached, but quickly dived down into the mud before I could see any detail, so the movement caught my eye. If I had happened on the scene as you see it in the pictures, I never would have noticed it.

Here’s a larger photo with the reveal below it:

 

Spot the frog!

September 20, 2026 • 8:15 am

This is going to be a hard one.  Reader Bob Woolley emailed me on Saturday with photos and the following information:

I was hiking yesterday at the “Blue Wall Preserve,” a joint project of The Nature Conservancy and various other private and public entities. It’s in South Carolina, just a stone’s throw from the North Carolina border. “Blue Wall” was the Cherokee name for what we now call the Blue Ridge Mountains. 

I came across a pond and noticed this frog. I have no idea what species it is, because what you see in these pictures is all that I saw—far from enough detail to try to make a proper identification. But still, the critter’s effective camouflage might make a challenging “spot” puzzle for your readers.

So, do your best! But please don’t say where it is in the comments; just note if you did or didn’t see it. The reveal will be at 11:30 a.m. Chicago time.

Here’s the frogmouth!

September 7, 2026 • 12:00 pm

Did you spot the tawny frogmouth in this morning’s post. It wasn’t too hard, was it.  Here is the reveal and some closeups. By the way, I welcome good “spot the. . . ” photos, but try to avoid putting the hidden animal in the dead center of the photo!

Closeups:

How nice to live in a place where you can see one of these in your yard, even though they’re not easy to see!

Spot the frogmouth!

September 7, 2026 • 8:15 am

I believe the frogmouth was among the very first animals in the “spot the. . ” series, and now here’s one again, courtesy of reader Peter, who sends a photo of a tawny frogmouth (Podargus strigoides)  he spotted in his front yard in Brisbane, Australia.

Can you see it in the photo below.  The reveal will be at noon Chicago time, and if you spot it, say so in the comments, but don’t reveal its location.