Photos...frogs, frogs and more frogs...

[Ruthie]

The other evening I realized after dark that I had forgotten my cell phone out by the pond so I went back to retrieve it.  While I knew we had lots of frogs around the pond during the day, I wasn't aware that the party really gets started at the pond after dark.  I got my phone and then just stood back and watched...the frogs and toads hopped in in droves from all over the back yard.  The pond....the neighborhood amphibian hotspot  

The next morning, both ponds had eggs everywhere.  I already had some tadpoles in the shallows behind the irises.   I have never seen so many frog and toad eggs though.

Anyway... I took some photos the next day.


Frog on a wire.  There are several more hidden in the shadows.


three more


Little grey tree frog. 


Just a view of the pond...dwarf hibisicus in bloom and my old faithful yellow unnamed lily.  It just blooms and blooms and blooms   The pickerel was blooming, too, but I accidently decapitated them when I took off the predator net.

[Julles]

Great pics.  Your pond is lovely.  I'm jealous; wish I had more frogs. 

I did discover that this year, now I have some kind of tree frog, I believe, that makes a LOUD call, about dusk, and into the evening.  I can almost pinpoint his voice, but have not yet seen him.  I hope he has a mate somewhere, and they do the egg thing in my pond. 

Around the yard, I also hear other smaller-voiced tree frogs, that do more of a peeping.  Haven't seen many toads this year, but did get some eggs after a spring rain.

[Julles]

I was just out there, 5:pm and hot, and heard another frog begin some tentative calls.  This is another kind.  Will have to listen to my Texas Amphibian CD to identify the calls.

I bet you, I just bet, that having removed the salt from my pond has invited more of the frog / toad critters back into the yard.  I've seen more dragonflies, too.

[Ruthie]

A ponding friend told me that a good frog population in the pond means good water conditions.  Makes sense, though, about the salt.

I love our little froggies.  We have a lot of dragonflies and damselflies....I have to let them out of the net every afternoon, though   The get in and can't find their way out.