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Garden Pond, Frogs, Crows, Magpies
This morning I noticed 3 lots of frogspawn in my pond. Not there
yesterday so it's a sign of Spring at last! 2 magpies turned up and started poking about in my newly turned vegetable beds. The local resident crows quickly turned up and chased them off. As the day went on, a horror story developed. My wife noticed a crow skulking around near the pond. Then she sees it throwing something around and pecking at it on the ground. I go out, chase away the crow and find an adult frog dead on its back, badly pecked and bleeding from the head. In the afternoon, I was out working in the garden, under intensive crow surveillance from nearby trees. Came in to make a cup of coffee and Lord Crow descends back to the pond. In the course of the 10 minutes or so I was in the house it snatched 2 more adult frogs out of the pond and injured both. One, bleeding, managed to make its way back in on its own. I had to pick the other one up and place it in the water - it did start to swim. I suppose once the lily pads and duckweed get under way the horrible things won't be able to see the frogs, assuming there'll be any left, as the crows get up before we do. I wouldn't have thought frogs were usual food for crows. Might it be that the extended cold and dry conditions have meant that normal food sources have been limited? I contemplated netting the pond to keep the crows out but realised this would also keep the frogs in! Is there any way of saving the frogs for further predation, or do we just let nature take its course? |
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