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.

Regards

Geoff

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 (

"La Puce" wrote

Snip

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.

Snip

That might be true but it's best to transfer the frog spawn.

Geoff

Malcolm wrote

When we moved here, I dug a pond, brought in frog
spawn for the necessary three years and have had breeding frogs ever
since.

Toads are more site faithful, however.

I am lucky enough to have slow-worms in my garden. And frogs & toads.
:-)
--
Roger Hunt

Roger Hunt wrote:

Malcolm wrote

When we moved here, I dug a pond, brought in frog
spawn for the necessary three years and have had breeding frogs ever
since.

Toads are more site faithful, however.

I am lucky enough to have slow-worms in my garden. And frogs & toads.
:-)

envy

But it's probably just as well we haven't got them here as the cats
wouldn't be kind to them :-(

I could do with a pet hedgehog for the allotment :-)

--
Carol
"The glassblower's cat is bompstable"
- Dorothy L. Sayers, _Clouds of Witness_

Carol Hague wrote
Roger Hunt wrote:
Malcolm wrote

When we moved here, I dug a pond, brought in frog
spawn for the necessary three years and have had breeding frogs ever
since.

Toads are more site faithful, however.

I am lucky enough to have slow-worms in my garden. And frogs & toads.
:-)

envy

But it's probably just as well we haven't got them here as the cats
wouldn't be kind to them :-(

The local cats have a few I'm sure, but I think they are naturally more
interested in furryfeathery creatures rather than amphibireptiles.
I could do with a pet hedgehog for the allotment :-)

I wonder what sort of thing makes it attractive for them, to induce them
to stick around, apart from food? Hidey-holes? Piles of leaves? A good
book? I don't know.
--
Roger Hunt

Roger Hunt wrote:

Carol Hague wrote
Roger Hunt wrote:

I am lucky enough to have slow-worms in my garden. And frogs & toads.
:-)

envy

But it's probably just as well we haven't got them here as the cats
wouldn't be kind to them :-(

The local cats have a few I'm sure, but I think they are naturally more
interested in furryfeathery creatures rather than amphibireptiles.

True. One of my previous cats once brought me a frog at 3am (I was
horribly ungrateful, I'm afraid) but I think she was working her way up,
her previous offering having been a worm....

I could do with a pet hedgehog for the allotment :-)

I wonder what sort of thing makes it attractive for them, to induce them
to stick around, apart from food? Hidey-holes? Piles of leaves? A good
book? I don't know.

I shall look it up. googles Piles of leafs and twigs apparently and
offerings of tinned pet food, chopped peanuts and muesli (what, no
orange juice? :-))

http://www.wildlifetrust.org.uk/facts/hedge.htm

Hpwever I suspect my neighbouring allotmnteers are probably using Evil
Chemicals which might be unconducive to hedgehog health :-(

--
Carol
"The glassblower's cat is bompstable"
- Dorothy L. Sayers, _Clouds of Witness_

Carol Hague wrote
Roger Hunt wrote:
Carol Hague wrote
Roger Hunt wrote:

I am lucky enough to have slow-worms in my garden. And frogs & toads.
:-)

envy

But it's probably just as well we haven't got them here as the cats
wouldn't be kind to them :-(

The local cats have a few I'm sure, but I think they are naturally more
interested in furryfeathery creatures rather than amphibireptiles.

True. One of my previous cats once brought me a frog at 3am (I was
horribly ungrateful, I'm afraid) but I think she was working her way up,
her previous offering having been a worm....

Mmmm smart cat - a demonstration of progression up the Evolutionary
tree. Her next offering may well been a chicken, then a sheep, then
traffic warden, and so on ...
--
Roger Hunt

Geoff writes
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.

Frogs are amphibians, ie they live both on land and in water. They spend
most of the year on land, coming to water in spring to breed (and some
also spend winter in water). Breeding is over for this year, so the
frogs will be dispersing. You'd expect to see fewer. We go from nearly
200 in breeding season to perhaps two dozen using the pool as somewhere
to keep cool in high summer.
--
Kay