On 27/07/2012 17:15, Ophelia wrote:


"Jake" wrote in message
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When I cut the lawns, I usually heave out the lawn mower and get
going. But having found a tiny froglet yesterday, I checked carefully
before starting to mow. Before long I had collected, and returned to
the pond, about 20 little froglets of varying sizes. Had I just
started cutting, I would have had 20 little chopped up froglets.

Later, I found some on one of the front lawns and I only noticed those
because they were surrounded by a group of baby slow worms (about 3"
long) and presumably about to be eaten! If those froglets came from my
pond (and I know of no other in the vicinity), they had migrated about
30 metres!

I've never known them to leave the pond like this, let alone in such
numbers. Why they have done so is a mystery.

But the lesson is if you have a pond in which frogs have spawned,
check carefully before you mow around it!

Lucky wee froglets to be in *your* garden
My tadpoles in the pond all disappeared, suppose it could be to do with
the fish and newts, but the ones in the greenhouse are thriving, they
know when they are onto a good thing, no insects but I just wish they
had an inclination for snails