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| One member of my pond is Big Froggie, a rather obvious choice of names but he is a BIG green frog (size of my fist) who seems to prefer birds as the main stay of his diet.
Anyway, he was absent from the pond this spring, two other smaller frogs were there, the fish made it too, but Big Froggie was missing. I figured he may have dug into the ground for the winter till I briefly spied him in my plant pond last weekend. That plant pond was gross, full of leaves and muck and smelled like a swamp. Ban bad bad. Thinking my dumb frog may be staying down there I decided to take advantage of the new daylight savings hour last night and bucket in hand drained the water and tossed the leaves. Half way thru POP mister Big Froggie surfaced. I netted him out and deposited him into the fish pond. He seems amiss, not having all that muck to hide under. May be a little weak too and not able to swim/jump out of the pond, so I made a ramp he can crawl out on. Its always nice to see him. Spring is coming! |
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| My pond and fish came with the house...and so did a big frog. Our property is now a bird haven with 5 nesting boxes for song birds......the first time I saw big froggie with feathers in her mouth she was evicted. She actually went to live in a class room of 2nd graders and lived for about 3 more years. Now all big frogs that show up are escorted back to the bog they came from. Removing the big ones has really helped the frog population in my pond. I pulled something like 18 frogs out of the 2 tiny top ponds right after the first freez this fall (they freeze solid). Lucky I noticed one under the ice, 5 had already died the rest I took down to a mud bottom river where I knew they would have the best chance. I know there are at least 3 in the fish pond and I am anxious to see if everybody survived.....Come on spring! Thaw out my pond! |
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- Posted by goodkarma_ 5b (My Page) on Mon, Mar 21, 11 at 11:26
| Good to hear Big Froggie is back. He must have liked the muckiness of your plant pond. Very sweet that you made him a ramp- I am sure he will appreciate that. |
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