In article ,
kay wrote:

...I'm not sure that's necessarily the problem this year. We've lost
some frogs,
not through disease, but because the pond froze to a depth ofabout 18 inches,
and they'd decided to tuck themselves into the shallowend.

Ditto (I think): as reported in another thread, we lost 13 frogs, 4
survived. I'm sure it's because the pond was frozen solid, and I failed
to knock a hole in the ice for all that time (other years I've both
knocked a hole in the ice, and in any case the ice wasn't so solid for
so long). I know the figures, btw, because, as reported, I've emptied
the pond completely in the last week.

John