On 3 May, 06:56, "Geoff" wrote:
There's now a few well fed frogs in my small garden pond. Getting the
mealworms was simple but their delivery to the frogs was not so easy because
the frogs would not eat them in the water and even the fish seemed a bit
reticent too! Of every 5 I threw trying to get them to land under the
fuchsias, 4 went in the water!
Fortunately my son had left a length of aluminium tube in my shed so
threading it through the fuchsias to rest on a ledge of the tufa ensures
delivery of a meal right in front of some frogs!
I think a heron has visited, there seems to be a fewer number of frogs.

I have heard recently that if you have brought the tadpoles into your
pond from somewhere else, the resulting frogs will eventually leave
your pond to find where they were born. I'm not sure if this is right.
I have a bit of a bad karma at the moment - I was cutting the grass
with my long shears and frogs were hopping from the undergrowth ...
and I caught one by accident (