Posted: Mon Apr 18, 05 10:43 am Post subject: a froggy tale
Or the case of two good deeds!
Himself was moving an empty plastic compost bin that was down the side of the house in to its new position by the greenhouse. The lid had got detached so he tipped out the water in it to realise to his horror that he'd just evicted a frog and a load of frogspawn. The frog hopped off in to the undergrowth, leaving the spawn just on the ground. OH did his best to save the frogspawn by scooping it up in an empty yogurt pot and has put it in our new pond. There must have been a pint of the stuff. On closer inspection there are definitely signs of tiny tadpoles wriggling about in the shallows of our pond now
Deed no 2 - later on that day a neighbour poked his head over the fence and offered Tim a frog that he'd just rescued from the lawn before he was about to mow it! Carefully carrying it again over to the pond where he let it go, it was seen frequently for the rest of the day, swimming about the pond and getting use to its new home.
The reward for all this this morning was leaning out of the window at about 6am to hear the unmistakeable sound of a frog croaking the base line of the dawn chorus!!
So the frog had spawned in just a puddle? Good thing you moved it then as I suspect a combination of cold and then heat/dry wouldn't have seen the stuff last very long where it was. Good start to your new pond - it is only recently completed, right?
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Posted: Mon Apr 18, 05 11:02 am Post subject: Re: a froggy tale
Fiddlesticks Julie wrote:
two good deeds!
Hearing that nice tale has made my day.
Thanks for sharing.
(We have a Toad lives in our garden and our rough tough terrier is scared of it. The shame )
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Posted: Mon Apr 18, 05 11:14 am Post subject:
I think we started off with just one lump of spawn a couple of years back. This year we had about ten clumps and frogs jumping everywhere, so it seems word gets around the frog world.
So the frog had spawned in just a puddle? Good thing you moved it then as I suspect a combination of cold and then heat/dry wouldn't have seen the stuff last very long where it was. Good start to your new pond - it is only recently completed, right?
near enough, the lid of the compost bin ( one of those council plastic things ) had acted like a giant saucer. It was down the side of the house which is a tiny strip of - well I hesitate to use the word land - budlea and nettles, about 18" wide at the most. Its very shady as the side of the next house is over the fence.
An excellent start to the pond to be honest, and exactly the sort of thing we want in it. Next door has a pond but he keeps fish so doesn't want frogs, the other side has an old pond but with a newly arrived baby its going to be dug up so he doesn't want frogs either -(actually or his fish so we've introduced both sets of neighbours to each other! )
Pond is looking fab at the mo as there is a small weeping cherry in full blossom reflected in it!
Carefully carrying it again over to the pond where he let it go, it was seen frequently for the rest of the day, swimming about the pond and getting use to its new home. 
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