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Frogs in Pond
Whilst hanging out washing on line, noticed some disturbance in Pond - about
eight pairs of frogs? My daughter's standing next to me as I type, saying "Watch out Slugs the Frogs are in Town". Anyone else got frogs in their pond yet? |
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In article , Janet Bennett
writes Whilst hanging out washing on line, noticed some disturbance in Pond - about eight pairs of frogs? My daughter's standing next to me as I type, saying "Watch out Slugs the Frogs are in Town". Anyone else got frogs in their pond yet? Yes - I posted last week that I had 37 of them in one pond. Today we have spawn :-) -- Kay "Do not insult the crocodile until you have crossed the river" |
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On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 17:57:27 +0000, Kay
wrote: In article , Janet Bennett writes Whilst hanging out washing on line, noticed some disturbance in Pond - about eight pairs of frogs? My daughter's standing next to me as I type, saying "Watch out Slugs the Frogs are in Town". Anyone else got frogs in their pond yet? Yes - I posted last week that I had 37 of them in one pond. Today we have spawn :-) I saw frogspawn in the Clwydians last Saturday, the snow had not quite cleared from the higher slopes. It was in a galvanised tank being used as a sheep drinking trough at about 200m asl . It was just below a small spring and almost filled with soil and rocks washed into it. The spawn was in the 8cm or so of water above all the rubbish so the water was never going to get any deeper and the spawn made mounds above the water in places. Some tadpoles were already emerged. ================================================= Rod Weed my email address to reply. http://website.lineone.net/~rodcraddock/index.html |
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Kay wrote:
[...] I can remember seeing tadpoles in a puddle in a forestry commission walk once. Frogs are not bright. [...] A very distressing feature of my last house was that it was built on what seemed to be froglets' ancestral route: in early years a few always used to come in and suffer attack by the pets, or dehydrate in odd corners. I even found one dead in the bottom of a tin of white spirit I'd left just inside the back door after cleaning paintbrushes. Since it had previously been the site of a cowshed, I suppose earlier migrations had been a bit more successful. The swallows learned the new arrangements within about ten years, too. -- Mike. |
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In article , Mike Lyle mike_lyle_uk@REM
OVETHISyahoo.co.uk writes Kay wrote: [...] I can remember seeing tadpoles in a puddle in a forestry commission walk once. Frogs are not bright. [...] A very distressing feature of my last house was that it was built on what seemed to be froglets' ancestral route: in early years a few always used to come in and suffer attack by the pets, or dehydrate in odd corners. That's rotten. I always feel sad when I find a squashed one on the driveway or a dehydrated one in the cellar, even though it's obvious that we have so many one or two losses are neither here nor there. -- Kay "Do not insult the crocodile until you have crossed the river" |
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Kay wrote:
I can remember seeing tadpoles in a puddle in a forestry commission walk once. Frogs are not bright. Toads too, I reckon. Wife and I are on holiday this week and were out gardening today. Frogs spawned about 2 weeks ago and now it's the toad's turn. Must have seen about a dozen or so in our garden making a lot of noise and running after anything that moved! It's kind of weird having a load of toads running after you - one even tried it on with the cat's tail - she wasn't impressed. Jeff |
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In article , Kay
writes Oh, and we saw our first newt of the season today. Did a torchlight search this evening - 161 frogs, 15 newts. Any idea what average frog density is, and therefore how far they've come? -- Kay "Do not insult the crocodile until you have crossed the river" |
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On 17/3/05 17:57, in article , "Kay"
wrote: In article , Janet Bennett writes Whilst hanging out washing on line, noticed some disturbance in Pond - about eight pairs of frogs? My daughter's standing next to me as I type, saying "Watch out Slugs the Frogs are in Town". Anyone else got frogs in their pond yet? Yes - I posted last week that I had 37 of them in one pond. Today we have spawn :-) We have toad and frog spawn and plenty of the 'live' versions in the pond. The other day we had a couple of mallards and that IS a first. -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.co.uk South Devon (remove the weeds to email me) |
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"Sacha" wrote in message k... On 17/3/05 17:57, in article , "Kay" wrote: In article , Janet Bennett writes Whilst hanging out washing on line, noticed some disturbance in Pond - about eight pairs of frogs? My daughter's standing next to me as I type, saying "Watch out Slugs the Frogs are in Town". Anyone else got frogs in their pond yet? Yes - I posted last week that I had 37 of them in one pond. Today we have spawn :-) We have toad and frog spawn and plenty of the 'live' versions in the pond. The other day we had a couple of mallards and that IS a first. Hope it's a biggish pond - mallards can wreak havoc in a small one. |
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On 18/3/05 8:25, in article , "BAC"
wrote: "Sacha" wrote in message k... On 17/3/05 17:57, in article , "Kay" wrote: In article , Janet Bennett writes Whilst hanging out washing on line, noticed some disturbance in Pond - about eight pairs of frogs? My daughter's standing next to me as I type, saying "Watch out Slugs the Frogs are in Town". Anyone else got frogs in their pond yet? Yes - I posted last week that I had 37 of them in one pond. Today we have spawn :-) We have toad and frog spawn and plenty of the 'live' versions in the pond. The other day we had a couple of mallards and that IS a first. Hope it's a biggish pond - mallards can wreak havoc in a small one. It's 20' square. The first Ray knew of it was an enormous amount of splashing going on and he thought our new puppy had fallen in! -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.co.uk South Devon (remove the weeds to email me) |
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Janet Bennett wrote :
Whilst hanging out washing on line, noticed some disturbance in Pond - about eight pairs of frogs? My daughter's standing next to me as I type, saying "Watch out Slugs the Frogs are in Town". Anyone else got frogs in their pond yet? Had them for quite a while now - our pond is full of frog spawn. Took a few photos of them last night (dark at the time) :- http://www.troytheblacklab.co.uk/morefrogs The 3rd one really seems to be smiling :-) Another one (nearly stepped on these 2 - they were just outside the back door :- http://www.troytheblacklab.co.uk/frog.jpg -- Regards, Troy the Black Lab. |
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Troy wrote:
Janet Bennett wrote : Whilst hanging out washing on line, noticed some disturbance in Pond - about eight pairs of frogs? My daughter's standing next to me as I type, saying "Watch out Slugs the Frogs are in Town". Anyone else got frogs in their pond yet? Had them for quite a while now - our pond is full of frog spawn. Took a few photos of them last night (dark at the time) :- http://www.troytheblacklab.co.uk/morefrogs The 3rd one really seems to be smiling :-) Another one (nearly stepped on these 2 - they were just outside the back door :- http://www.troytheblacklab.co.uk/frog.jpg Impressive photos what camera a settigns do you use? Paul (keen to take pictures like that !) |
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Paul wrote :
Impressive photos Thanks - it's the camera not me :-) what camera a settigns do you use? The camera is a Canon Powershot G6 (nice). Photos taken with external flash. 1/60 sec, f/2 ISO: 50 Macro - on As it was dark, the pond photos were taken with the aid of a torch :-) I shone the torch on the frog, focused the camera, switched off the torch and took the photo. Not used the external flash outside in the dark before so it was mostly guesswork. Paul (keen to take pictures like that !) What camera do you have? -- Regards, Troy the Black Lab. |
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Troy wrote:
Paul wrote : Impressive photos Thanks - it's the camera not me :-) what camera a settigns do you use? The camera is a Canon Powershot G6 (nice). Photos taken with external flash. 1/60 sec, f/2 ISO: 50 Macro - on As it was dark, the pond photos were taken with the aid of a torch :-) I shone the torch on the frog, focused the camera, switched off the torch and took the photo. Not used the external flash outside in the dark before so it was mostly guesswork. Paul (keen to take pictures like that !) What camera do you have? I am currently using a canon 500 SLR but trying to get a feel for a nice digital replacement, have been debating the Minolta z3 or z5. Paul |
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