Hi,

[kielder]

Hello there, and welcome to our community

[wildlifesnapper]

Hi Dave,

welcome to WAB from me too.

neil

[navig8r]

Thanks for all the welcomes,sorry for delay in responding but have been very busy.
in reply to post on Dragonflies,we have a few Emperors but mostly broad bodied ones ..i think libelllula. There are hundreds of Damselflies with red bodies and probably the more common blue male/green female ones.
I originally found this forum whilst looking for answers to to a question I have regarding larger than normal tadpoles/frogs as one of my smaller pond ..an insult to call it a pond really as it is only 2 feet by 1 ft 3" and about a foot deep but it attracts more spawning frogs than any other ,so much so that I have to keep transfering the spawn to other ponds. anyway the spawn I left in has produced frogs that are four or five times larger and more mature looking than normal.and they are also much more skitish and dive for cover as soon as I get near where as the taddies the other are so tame from the daily feeding that I can cup them up in my hand.

I saw an explaintion in another thread suggesting tapoles left over from the previous season but in my case,given the large numbers involved and the fact the pond had been virtully drained I would have thought this highly unlikely!does anyone have any other theory on this?

BTW,today I removed a folded plasic sheet from my slabbed patio that surrounds my fishpond and on which stands temp containers housing excess taddies I uncovered a female Great Crested Newt.
Is it possible that it was there taking advantage of the hoards of young frogs that are leaving their watery homes or don't they eat them once they have left the water??

Dave

[shei111]

Hello Navi catch you on the forums .she

[ChasCreek]

HI Dave, welcome to WAB.