Check these sites for info on our local amphibeans:

http://www.wec.ufl.edu/extension/fro...pictorial.htm#

A lot of them have recordings of the calls that they make, too.

Lee
"Don" wrote in message
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Dave:

Thanks for the reply. It may very well have been a tree frog - it was
small
and didn't look menacing at all. I think I also read that bufo toads are
not
terribly fast, and this little guy was gone in a flash.

I never have dog food outdoors - it would attract bugs and in this heat,
would probably go bad very quickly anyhow. There is a good amount of
foliage
near the pond where a toad could find cover. However, there aren't many
bugs
around - I spray the yard periodically to prevent fleas and ticks and that
also keeps the ants and other pests under control. No small critters
either,
just the occasional squirrel.

I did find a new batch of eggs in the pond on Saturday, so someone is
definitely visiting. My yard is fenced in though, so unless a bufo can
jump
or climb over a 6' fence I'm not sure how they would get in. There may be
a
few small gaps here and there but there's no large openings for anything
too
large to crawl under.

If I find eggs again, is there any easy way to tell if they are from a
bufo
or a tree frog (which I assume are harmless). The little tadpoles I found
a
week or two ago were chomping on the water lilies, if that's any
indication
one way or another.

Thanks.
Don