What is it 'they' say, "Build it and they'll come"
Can't tell you how excited I am to have a frog visit my garden, I'm over the moon. Got drenched taking the pic, but I wouldn't have missed this opportunity
Excellent, I always wonder how do they know? Do they sniff the water out from a distance? Froggie grapevine? Right fellow croakers, Jenny’s built a pond, let’s all hop along and pile in! 😆
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
Ah - that's better. No he/she is a frog @Jenny_Aster. The dark spotting looked warty, which is why I wondered Frogs don't actually spend a lot of time in ponds - mainly when they're procreating, or for hibernating in winter. It's always surprising when they turn up though.
We're near an NT garden which has a large pond, and there are loads of other areas of water round here, so it's quite difficult to get them coming into domestic garden ponds and staying there. I had a fairly 'resident' one a couple of years ago. He got the right royal hump when I filled in the old pond to make the new one, although he lived happily enough in and around the trug that the water had been decanted into. I think he struggled to find a mate though. I had a little one last year which came from a neighbour, as he'd got some spawn for his two wee girls to enjoy watching. I'll need to ask him if he's still got the little pond though.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Our garden cos it's a new build and is so enclosed that I feared frogs and the like wouldn't be able to visit. I now notice a hole under the fence has appeared where I've made a flowerbed in the corner, it's probably where the frog hopped in. Living in the middle of the Fens with massive ditches all around there must be loads of frogs about, so I'm so pleased we've had a visit from two frogs today.
Before moving here we spent 5 years on a voyage of discovery in a narrowboat navigating over 3k miles of our inland waterways and I can't remember seeing a single frog. Seen loads of other creatures including turtles and seals though, even a water buffalo...
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Can't tell you how excited I am to have a frog visit my garden, I'm over the moon. Got drenched taking the pic, but I wouldn't have missed this opportunity
Cambridgeshire/Norfolk border.
Cambridgeshire/Norfolk border.
Brilliant anyway
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Cambridgeshire/Norfolk border.
Cambridgeshire/Norfolk border.
The dark spotting looked warty, which is why I wondered
Frogs don't actually spend a lot of time in ponds - mainly when they're procreating, or for hibernating in winter. It's always surprising when they turn up though.
We're near an NT garden which has a large pond, and there are loads of other areas of water round here, so it's quite difficult to get them coming into domestic garden ponds and staying there. I had a fairly 'resident' one a couple of years ago. He got the right royal hump when I filled in the old pond to make the new one, although he lived happily enough in and around the trug that the water had been decanted into. I think he struggled to find a mate though. I had a little one last year which came from a neighbour, as he'd got some spawn for his two wee girls to enjoy watching. I'll need to ask him if he's still got the little pond though.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Before moving here we spent 5 years on a voyage of discovery in a narrowboat navigating over 3k miles of our inland waterways and I can't remember seeing a single frog. Seen loads of other creatures including turtles and seals though, even a water buffalo...
Cambridgeshire/Norfolk border.