frog bonanza

[rooftop]

Hi Wabbers,
The Wildlife 'Pond'erossa at night,,,,,,,,A frog 'Bonanza'..Clint and Buck[was he the High Chaparel?] on fine form!

[jaelen]

Those are great night-time photos...but what is that strange creature in the bottom left of the first photograph??

[rooftop]

Thanks J!
Its either a dragonfly or damselfly larvae! Not sure if our froggy friends like them to appear on the menu, but that one is a bit close!
Over the past couple of weeks I 've been to check on our patch of water after dark, and the frogs seem to have a couple of places they really like to 'hang out' in. They seem to quite enjoy the very shallow edges of the pond where they can sit up on their front legs, with their heads out of the water at 45 degrees. We've had four of them at once doing the same thing! They're a bit like rock stars, sleeping all day and playing all night!

[jaelen]

Oh, of course it is... I should have recognised that, my cousins and I certainly spent enough of our childhood catching and keeping the poor creatures in jars until our Mums got fed up and made us tip them back out into the lake.

I've got a few frogs that now seem to have favourite spots in the pond to hang out, too... there's one that wedges himself behind a pond basket; whenever I go out past the pond I peer down and there he is, nearly squashed but perfectly content. (I was worried he was trapped at first, but no- he moves back and forth in his small space and every now and again pops up for a look around.