Water Gardening: What lives in or near your Pond, 1 by sunnyg

sunnyg wrote:
I love your birdbath water feature HollyAnn! You’ve got a hardcore frog there…as big as a baby rabbit? Wow! Isn’t taking frog pics fun? I’d love to see some more pics of your big guys as the season goes on.

Beautiful egret shot KaperC, although they do sound like unwelcome visitors. My dad has a small pond at his house, and also has a lot of probs with egrets eating the fish. Polliwogs are an exciting development! We actually still have some in an aquarium in the living room. LOL. Do you know what kind of frogs you have in your pond? I think at least some of ours are Pacific Tree Frogs, but I’m not totally sure. Our frogs are normally pretty shy during the day. I’ve come across them a few times in the garden, but the real party happens at night (I can hear the “ribbits” as I type this). These guys are tiny, but they are LOUD! The previous pics were taken when we first released them into the pond, so don’t get too jealous since that is cheating, right? ;-). We have a completely enclosed yard and don’t live near water, so we collected frogs and tadpoles from someone’s seasonal pond at the end of March. This is all very new and exciting for me. Below is a pic of a frog headed over to the party on the parrot feather. This was taken a few nights ago.

Tammy, we have our parrot feather in a pot. It is beautiful, but a very aggressive grower, and I think it is listed as invasive in some states. Our fish and frogs both love it though, and it works well in our pond as it is a contained environment. I wonder if frogs would come into your yard if you put in a small lower water feature? Build it and they will come, right? ;-)


This message was edited Apr 19, 2008 9:25 PM