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Post by grindle on Mar 1, 2019 6:34:15 GMT
been hard at it in my pond too SueA  |
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Post by SueA on Mar 1, 2019 8:37:39 GMT
They were at it again here yesterday as well grindle, the drizzle didn't put them off & there are 3 more big balls of frogspawn now.  |
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Post by grindle on Mar 2, 2019 6:33:24 GMT
hopefully a bumper year this year SueA |
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Post by SueA on Mar 2, 2019 8:10:29 GMT
I think it might be grindle, a lot seem to have got through the mild winter this year, they were all at it again yesterday, I counted 14 frogs visible at one time in a huge lump & the pond is about a quarter full of spawn, to paraphrase 'Jaws' I think 'we're gonna need a bigger pond'! Pic. shows 7 of them yesterday:-  |
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Post by roofgardener on Mar 4, 2019 7:45:38 GMT
There was a ... thing... in my pond yesterday ?
It LOOKED like a small frog ? It was trying (and failing) to climb the walls of the pond.
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Post by SueA on Mar 4, 2019 8:24:16 GMT
It could have been a frog/toad Roofy, you should put something in the pond to help creatures climb out as the sides or your pond seem quite steep, even a branch or piece of wood leaning up against the side from the bottom would help. Frogs can jump out but only so high & they have to have something beneath their feet to push off against, even plants placed around the inside edges of the pond help as frogs/toads/newts( even hedgehogs) can climb up them & get out.
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Post by roofgardener on Mar 5, 2019 11:56:49 GMT
It could have been a frog/toad Roofy, you should put something in the pond to help creatures climb out as the sides or your pond seem quite steep, even a branch or piece of wood leaning up against the side from the bottom would help. Frogs can jump out but only so high & they have to have something beneath their feet to push off against, even plants placed around the inside edges of the pond help as frogs/toads/newts( even hedgehogs) can climb up them & get out. Sound advice SueA. My problem is, is that the pond is quite deep (about 3' or so), with a sloping shelf about 1' below the surface of the water. So it would be very difficult to get a stick to lean against the (upper) edge of the pond. I will persevere, however. |
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Post by SueA on Mar 6, 2019 8:47:17 GMT
Ahh I see Roofy, maybe you could just put some large pebbles/stones/pots/marginal plants on the shelf that creatures could climb up with something like a pot with a waterlily in it in the deeper section for them to climb up on?
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Post by sweetpea on Mar 6, 2019 18:08:02 GMT
It wasn't a flying frog then  |
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Post by roofgardener on Mar 7, 2019 19:13:45 GMT
Ahh I see Roofy, maybe you could just put some large pebbles/stones/pots/marginal plants on the shelf that creatures could climb up with something like a pot with a waterlily in it in the deeper section for them to climb up on? Sadly, the shelf is steeply sloping, SueA .  I am thinking of getting one of the engineers at work to build a little "bridge" thingy. |
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Post by SueA on Mar 30, 2019 8:05:41 GMT
The frogspawn was hatching in the pond yesterday, I could see lots of wriggling going on in there in the sunshine! |
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Post by sweetpea on Mar 30, 2019 11:27:58 GMT
lots of tadpoles here too. Soon be more things for the cats to hunt unfortunately.
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