I'm sure that's it, but I really miss them! I used to enjoy going out and
counting them and having a chat. My fish won't stay and chat. They watch me
weed/deadhead the flowers nearby, but if I glance their way, they will hide
or look the other way pretending they weren't watching me.


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LN in NH (new gardener in zone 5)

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"LN \(remove NOSPAM\)" wrote in message
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Something odd tho, last year by this time we had about 6-7 frogs. By the
end
of the season, we had 9. This year, none. What's up with that, do you
think? We had a very cold, wet spring. Ya think that would affect
things?

Lots of things affect frog populations. Some imponderable. We have had
a pond for 20 odd years, and every year we have different numbers of
frogs, and different kinds. For a couple of years we had none, or only
one, and combined with newspaper reports of world wide amphibian
scarcity we were fearful of never having another one. Then the next
year we had a bumper crop of 3 different species at once. I think frog
populations naturally go up and down on a local scale.