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Originally Posted by nealeholl  I created a largish pool (about 20m across) in our garden in October 2007. The excavations were pretty much recovered by last summer, and there was plenty of signs of invertebrate life, and lots of weed growth. The pool is close to a rather turgid little stream with not much flow, but which does back up and flood when the adjoining larger stream is in spate. This in turn occasionally overspills into my pond, topping it up.
The pond is entirely surrounded by pretty well untouched grassland and weeds (it WILL be called a meadow one day!).
I created the pool with nice shallow sloping edges for wildlife, and there are no fish. (Correction, I saw one tiny little fish the other day, obviously washed in when the stream spilled over in the winter).
So... how come I have to sit here reading with envy the posts by everyone about frogs' choruses and masses of spawn. I haven't seen one solitary frog, and am feeling very left out! Any ideas how long it might take before I have a vibrant amphibian population? |
Well I've been waiting longer then you Buddy bear
November 2006 i put in my two ponds ,got three now if you count my new barrel pond
However tempting it is I'm gonna wait for them to find my garden.
Thats half the fun and i'm like a small kid on christmas morning as i rush to the bedroom window each morning and gaze into the frogless water below
instead of has he been?.....
it's more like have they been??!! lol
when and if they do arrive i do have a nice bottle of champers on hold
