I haven’t bought tadpoles for my pond this year. I like the idea of frogs being in my pond, but I’ve gotten tadpoles three seasons now, and they all disappear. I’m disappointed. I read about how other ponds have frogs winter over, then lay eggs in the spring. I have no eggs. I don’t know if the frogs are dying or moving away or what. It seems kind of like a waste of money to keep getting tadpoles though. The snails and fish do an okay job of eating stuff off the bottom of the pond, so I’m not sure that I need tadpoles anyway.
But I do have at least one frog. Lately, I’ve been hearing it in the morning. So at least one tadpole survived. Maybe it’s a male frog and he’s singing to the lady frogs. Maybe I’ll still get some eggs. I can only hope.
The other day right at dusk I saw it through the window. It jumps in the water when I get anywhere near the pond, so I stayed inside. But I could get a picture of it through the window. It’s right in the middle:
Awwww……. Can we call him Kermit? I love him. <3
Your place is like a wildlife preserve now, with all the mason bees, frogs, rats and bunnies. Well, not a 'preserve' for the bunnies so much.
Awwwww…..he is the cutest thing ever!! (Great picture!) Do you suppose the others are afraid they’ll get the shovel if they eat anything in the pond, so they’ve moved on…..because how would they know that it’s ok for them and even helpful to eat, but not for others….unless maybe you put up a sign.
Are tadpoles expensive? I would think the coolness of watching them change into a frog would be worth it.
This joke always made me scream as a kid: What’s red & green & goes a 100mph?
I know that one! I didn’t scream though: I did some pretty sadistic things to toads when I was a kid. But it was all in the name of science. It was about mechanics – “What will happen if I do this?” “Does this part come off?” “Would this pointy object poke through that thing?” I’m not proud of what I did, but I understand why I did it.
The answer to your riddle: A frog in a blender.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwP47xAZmBs
(and I’m really glad you outgrew that disturbing behavior?!?)
Due to government cut-back, literacy classes for amphibians have been greatly reduced. In other words, don’t bother with the signs, Brad – they won’t be able to read ’em anyway…
…and I’m guessing the punchline to your joke has something to do with a frog that’s met with an unfortunate accident…maybe I don’t really want to know…I may not read any more postings to this thread. 🙁
So, what’s red & green & goes 500 mph?
A fat frog in a broken blender????
A frog in a Magic Bullet?
Red Green in a homebuilt F-15!
http://www.redgreen.com/
Shoot! He was in Baltimore last August and I had no idea!? I loved that show. “I’m a man…but I can change…if I have to.” Long live the Possum Lodge. (His “nephew” was the guy who starred in the recent “ADD and Loving it” PBS special…FYI…y’all.)