Brilliant @tommo9320 Strictly speaking - yes, you'd have left him to do his own thing, but he'll find his way out and a nice spot to hide etc. when he's fed up of being Adam Peaty....
I hope you get lots of pleasure from it all
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
So we spotted our first visitor today whilst clearing up leaves in the other end of the garden.
There is very little else there and little cover so we relocated to the pond.
Just out of interest, were we right to do so or should we have let him find his own way there?
A young common frog by the looks of it and I'm guessing there maybe more than one?
Yes common frog. Best to leave them find their own way. They spend a lot of time on land. They may visit ponds in hot weather and of course the adults appear in the breeding season, but generally they are just as happy hopping about feeding in the garden and will seek water when they need to.
I've just got in from planting up my pond 😀😀, plants ordered from puddleplants about 6 weeks ago. Well worth the wait with they are excellent with a great variety of plants and planting depth etc. Delighted to find we have frogs in the pond to go along with the tadpoles we introduced and all the other creepy-crawlies.
I've just got in from planting up my pond 😀😀, plants ordered from puddleplants about 6 weeks ago. Well worth the wait with they are excellent with a great variety of plants and planting depth etc. Delighted to find we have frogs in the pond to go along with the tadpoles we introduced and all the other creepy-crawlies.
@tommo9320 forgot to do this before so just adding a picture of our pond It's looking loads better since the addition of the plants, the scummy froth we had forming on the surface has stopped completely. We need more cobbles to improve the beach area but it's all a work in progress.
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Strictly speaking - yes, you'd have left him to do his own thing, but he'll find his way out and a nice spot to hide etc. when he's fed up of being Adam Peaty....
I hope you get lots of pleasure from it all
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Can any body point me to the name of this quite large spider sitting on the beached area of the pond as well as what this excrement could be from?
Would be great to have a better understanding of what I'm looking at.
Thanks again ☺
Bird of some kind for the poop.
@wild edges will possibly know the spider or @Papi Jo
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Spider looks like a Wolf Spider (Pardosa amentata) sun bathing.
Many spiders seen skating across the pond one side to the other between the rocks.
Today I sat whilst bees and wasps stopped by from the Alliums for a drink then back on their way.
I could sit there all day! ☺️
Would be great to see photos when you get chance!
It's looking loads better since the addition of the plants, the scummy froth we had forming on the surface has stopped completely. We need more cobbles to improve the beach area but it's all a work in progress.